Fewer than five US girls were named Alda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #448, reached in 1901. The most girls given the name in a single year was 191, in 1918. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,721 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alda in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,976 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,245 babies named Alda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14 US girls were named Alda; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 8.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elda (9,012 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Geralda, Aldah and Aulda are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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