Meaning not yet researched.
Alida: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #403 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #403 in 1880; #4,991 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Alida in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,991 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #403.
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Alida: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #403 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 64 (1917).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Alida, making it the 4,991st most common girls’ name of the year, down 424 places from #4,567 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 30 girls named Alida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #403, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 64, in 1917. For comparison, it was #4,988 in 2015 and #1,496 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alida in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 4,650 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 460 babies named Alida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 281 US girls were named Alida; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elida (7,776 babies since 1880), Lida (5,921 babies since 1880), Alita (2,608 babies since 1880) and Aleida (2,121 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleda, Alyda and Allida are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aleda (1,046), Alyda (174), Allida (34), Alaida (24), Alayda (11), Alieda (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Alida in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,761 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,179 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,619 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,168 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,358 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,931 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,988 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,550 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,473 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,425 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,581 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,136 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,263 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,835 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,682 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,646 | — | — |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1954 | 60 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1951 | 52 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1948 | 62 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1947 | 49 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1918 | 53 | #990 | — | — |
| 1917 | 64 | #859 | — | — |
| 1916 | 54 | #928 | — | — |
| 1915 | 51 | #927 | — | — |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1913 | 40 | #830 | — | — |
| 1912 | 29 | #938 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1910 | 28 | #812 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #963 | — | — |
| 1908 | 27 | #742 | — | — |
| 1907 | 24 | #761 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #793 | — | — |
| 1905 | 24 | #735 | — | — |
| 1904 | 18 | #853 | — | — |
| 1903 | 21 | #735 | — | — |
| 1902 | 27 | #642 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #796 | — | — |
| 1900 | 26 | #706 | — | — |
| 1899 | 27 | #593 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #964 | — | — |
| 1897 | 30 | #537 | — | — |
| 1896 | 34 | #504 | — | — |
| 1895 | 26 | #596 | — | — |
| 1894 | 32 | #505 | — | — |
| 1893 | 24 | #571 | — | — |
| 1892 | 25 | #554 | — | — |
| 1891 | 26 | #506 | — | — |
| 1890 | 21 | #570 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #568 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #573 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #560 | — | — |
| 1886 | 22 | #459 | — | — |
| 1885 | 16 | #542 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #852 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #481 | — | — |
| 1882 | 18 | #432 | — | — |
| 1881 | 16 | #419 | — | — |
| 1880 | 17 | #403 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).