Nelda

Where Nelda comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Nelda.

  • Vowel-ended
Nelda through the years
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #264
    546 babies named Nelda, its best rank.
  3. 1943
    Nelda Speaks born
    American politician
  4. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #631.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Nelda Speaks · American politician, born 1943

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.