Vada

Where Vada comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Vada.

  • Vowel-ended
Vada through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Vada Somerville born
    American suffragist
  3. 1901
    Peak, #331
    84 babies named Vada, its best rank.
  4. 1938
    Vada Pinson born
    American baseball player and coach
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,705.
  6. 1984
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Vada Pinson · American baseball player and coach, 1938–1995
  • Vada Somerville · American suffragist, 1885–1972

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.