Nelda
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#9,906
down −519 places
2025 births
10
down −1 births
All-time births
20,139
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1938
- 567 births
- Best rank
- #264
- in 1939
- First recorded
- 1884
- #1,123 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1942
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 128 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1938567#266Peak
- 1941554#271
- 1939546#264
- 1940540#268
- 1937526#274
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #264 in 1939 · peak births 567 in 1938
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
5 boys · 20,139 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Nelda has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.