Meaning not yet researched.
Nelda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #264 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #264 in 1939; #9,906 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nelda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,906 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #264.
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Nelda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #264 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 567 (1938).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Nelda, making it the 9,906th most common girls’ name of the year, down 519 places from #9,387 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Nelda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #264, reached in 1939. The most girls given the name in a single year was 567, in 1938. For comparison, it was #15,879 in 2015 and #414 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nelda in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 20,144 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 4,936 babies named Nelda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 45 US girls were named Nelda; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nilda (3,244 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nellda 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 Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nellda (6).
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 Nelda 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 | 10 | #9,906 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,387 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,198 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,077 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,143 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,707 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,879 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,470 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,010 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,143 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,692 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,037 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,219 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,357 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,078 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,764 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,090 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,016 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,829 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,637 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,537 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,597 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,509 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,542 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,966 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,019 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,859 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,509 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,252 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1969 | 90 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1965 | 130 | #877 | — | — |
| 1964 | 165 | #818 | — | — |
| 1963 | 168 | #802 | — | — |
| 1962 | 186 | #764 | — | — |
| 1961 | 224 | #702 | — | — |
| 1960 | 235 | #662 | — | — |
| 1959 | 222 | #671 | — | — |
| 1958 | 242 | #632 | — | — |
| 1957 | 284 | #574 | — | — |
| 1956 | 280 | #562 | — | — |
| 1955 | 361 | #476 | — | — |
| 1954 | 350 | #477 | — | — |
| 1953 | 318 | #486 | — | — |
| 1952 | 387 | #436 | — | — |
| 1951 | 392 | #423 | — | — |
| 1950 | 375 | #414 | — | — |
| 1949 | 447 | #371 | — | — |
| 1948 | 490 | #350 | — | — |
| 1947 | 468 | #371 | — | — |
| 1946 | 521 | #327 | — | — |
| 1945 | 451 | #320 | — | — |
| 1944 | 435 | #327 | — | — |
| 1943 | 500 | #312 | — | — |
| 1942 | 464 | #322 | — | — |
| 1941 | 554 | #271 | — | — |
| 1940 | 540 | #268 | — | — |
| 1939 | 546 | #264 | — | — |
| 1938 | 567 | #266 | — | — |
| 1937 | 526 | #274 | — | — |
| 1936 | 524 | #265 | — | — |
| 1935 | 473 | #281 | 5 | #4,009 |
| 1934 | 493 | #277 | — | — |
| 1933 | 476 | #277 | — | — |
| 1932 | 468 | #288 | — | — |
| 1931 | 424 | #311 | — | — |
| 1930 | 434 | #317 | — | — |
| 1929 | 376 | #332 | — | — |
| 1928 | 440 | #312 | — | — |
| 1927 | 436 | #320 | — | — |
| 1926 | 349 | #359 | — | — |
| 1925 | 315 | #385 | — | — |
| 1924 | 312 | #388 | — | — |
| 1923 | 238 | #440 | — | — |
| 1922 | 251 | #415 | — | — |
| 1921 | 229 | #459 | — | — |
| 1920 | 224 | #451 | — | — |
| 1919 | 154 | #555 | — | — |
| 1918 | 164 | #553 | — | — |
| 1917 | 177 | #497 | — | — |
| 1916 | 158 | #522 | — | — |
| 1915 | 146 | #521 | — | — |
| 1914 | 117 | #520 | — | — |
| 1913 | 75 | #598 | — | — |
| 1912 | 63 | #628 | — | — |
| 1911 | 47 | #632 | — | — |
| 1910 | 29 | #808 | — | — |
| 1909 | 33 | #703 | — | — |
| 1908 | 16 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1907 | 25 | #756 | — | — |
| 1906 | 37 | #590 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #726 | — | — |
| 1904 | 19 | #847 | — | — |
| 1903 | 16 | #888 | — | — |
| 1902 | 18 | #837 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #761 | — | — |
| 1900 | 27 | #698 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1895 | 12 | #968 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,123 | — | — |
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).