Walda
Last seen for girls in 1957 at #6,086
- Peak · girls
- 1948 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 330since 1911
Walda over time
Rank among girls' names. Walda has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #1,548 | 36 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #1,941 | 19 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #2,447 | 14 |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #1,965 | 17 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
| 1938 | #1,596 | 23 |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 |
| 1936 | #1,950 | 16 |
| 1935 | #2,206 | 14 |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 |
| 1933 | #2,161 | 14 |
| 1932 | #2,235 | 14 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
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| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Walda! It came in at #2,191, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Walda is popular in 1938
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#340 · 1 in 5,617
Best ever in a state: #340 in Massachusetts, 1938.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #340 | 5 | 1 in 5,617 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Walda
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1957
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1948 at #1,548 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1949, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 47,164 girls born in 1948 were named Walda (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 408,970 girls born in 1957 (0.00%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Walda (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 25 | #2,191 (1911) | #3,459 |
| 1920s | 11 | #4,306 (1926) | #4,684 |
| 1930s | 121 | #1,596 (1938) | #2,444 |
| 1940s | 129 | #1,548 (1948) | #2,824 |
| 1950s | 44 | #2,694 (1951) | #4,297 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Walda in 1938
Top girls' names in 1938
More about 1938
girls
1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 47,976 of them was named Walda, which outranked 68.0% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,547Vanita24
- #1,547Vivienne24
- #1,547Wilhelmenia24
- #1,596Walda23
- #1,596Alvera23
- #1,596Ardyth23
- #1,596Aretta23
- #1,650Alean22
- #1,650Alease22
- #1,650Alethia22
Tied with 53 names at #1,596; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.