Leda

Where Leda comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Leda.

  • Vowel-ended
Leda through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #511
    41 babies named Leda, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.