Leda

Where Leda comes from

Leda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #511
    41 babies named Leda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #848.
  4. 1920
    Leda Mileva born
    Bulgarian poet and diplomat
  5. 1957
    Leda Cosmides born
    American psychologist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Leda Cosmides · American psychologist, born 1957
  • Leda Mileva · Bulgarian poet and diplomat, 1920–2013
  • Leda Gloria · actress, 1908–1997
  • Leda Rafanelli · Italian publisher and poet, 1880–1971
  • Leda Valladares · Argentinian composer, 1919–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.