Meaning not yet researched.
Imelda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #770 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #770 in 1911; #4,295 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Imelda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,295 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #770.
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Imelda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #770 in 1911 · most girls in one year: 149 (1978).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Imelda, making it the 4,295th most common girls’ name of the year, down 628 places from #3,667 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 42 girls named Imelda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #770, reached in 1911. The most girls given the name in a single year was 149, in 1978. For comparison, it was #6,560 in 2015 and #1,205 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Imelda in 130 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 7,476 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,283 babies named Imelda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US girls were named Imelda; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Emelda, Emilda and Ymelda 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 Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Emelda (1,396), Emilda (22), Ymelda (22).
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 Imelda 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 | 33 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,317 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,534 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,064 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,422 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,813 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,492 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,399 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1992 | 95 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1982 | 110 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1981 | 120 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1979 | 105 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1978 | 149 | #947 | — | — |
| 1977 | 138 | #988 | — | — |
| 1976 | 137 | #937 | — | — |
| 1975 | 137 | #931 | — | — |
| 1974 | 127 | #971 | — | — |
| 1973 | 130 | #937 | — | — |
| 1972 | 103 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1971 | 141 | #925 | — | — |
| 1970 | 116 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1967 | 76 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1964 | 60 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1963 | 80 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1962 | 67 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1961 | 78 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1959 | 67 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1958 | 80 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1957 | 86 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1956 | 63 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1955 | 76 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1953 | 65 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1938 | 63 | #893 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1936 | 49 | #982 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1933 | 48 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1932 | 50 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1931 | 50 | #988 | — | — |
| 1930 | 68 | #871 | — | — |
| 1929 | 53 | #995 | — | — |
| 1928 | 79 | #809 | — | — |
| 1927 | 64 | #943 | — | — |
| 1926 | 72 | #874 | — | — |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1924 | 55 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1923 | 60 | #959 | — | — |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1921 | 61 | #949 | — | — |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1919 | 61 | #903 | — | — |
| 1918 | 57 | #955 | — | — |
| 1917 | 66 | #847 | — | — |
| 1916 | 63 | #860 | — | — |
| 1915 | 55 | #886 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #882 | — | — |
| 1913 | 35 | #903 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #987 | — | — |
| 1911 | 32 | #770 | — | — |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1909 | 19 | #947 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1901 | 15 | #868 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #985 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,414 | — | — |
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).