Walda

Last seen for girls in 1957 at #6,086

Peak · girls
1948 · 36 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
330
since 1911

Walda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Walda has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201940peak #1,548, 1948girls
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1957#6,0865
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1947#3,24011
1946#3,4309
1945#1,94119
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First appearance
1911

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 1940

No state had 5 or more girls named Walda in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Walda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1957
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1911
  • Peaked 1948 at #1,548 (36 births)
  • Births halved by 1949, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 47,164
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1940s
  • 39.1% of all girls named Walda (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s25#2,191 (1911)#3,459
1920s11#4,306 (1926)#4,684
1930s121#1,596 (1938)#2,444
1940s129#1,548 (1948)#2,824
1950s44#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 1940

girls
#1,965
17 births · 1 in 67,266 girls

Top girls' names in 1940

  1. #1Mary56,216
  2. #2Barbara36,736
  3. #3Patricia32,665
  4. #4Judith22,385
  5. #5Betty22,077
  6. #6Carol21,759
  7. #7Nancy19,737
  8. #8Linda18,370
  9. #9Shirley17,881
  10. #10Sandra16,153
  11. #1,965Walda17
More about 1940

girls

1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 67,266 of them was named Walda, which outranked 60.9% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Walda
  1. #1,900Zana18
  2. #1,900Zettie18
  3. #1,900Zulema18
  4. #1,965Walda17
  5. #1,965Arliss17
  6. #1,965Arlyce17
  7. #1,965Audelia17
  8. #2,029Alean16
  9. #2,029Aleen16
  10. #2,029Alita16

Tied with 63 names at #1,965; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1939
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,494Scarlett#3,429 → #935
  2. ↑ 1,465Lonna#2,206 → #741
  3. ↑ 834Pam#1,797 → #963
  4. ↑ 659Jody#1,638 → #979
  5. ↑ 633Laraine#1,474 → #841
Fallers
  1. ↓ 481Fredia#996 → #1,477
  2. ↓ 430Eleanora#974 → #1,404
  3. ↓ 375Danielle#811 → #1,186
  4. ↓ 342Eloisa#930 → #1,272
  5. ↓ 298Coral#996 → #1,294

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1940 →