How popular is the name Nelda?

Nelda ranks 929th among girls' names in US records, with 20,134 births since 1884. Over the past decade it accounts for 41.

Is Nelda a unisex name?

No. Nelda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1938, when 567 children were given the name. It has been in use for 141 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#929 of girl names

Pronounced N EH1 L D AH0 (ARPABET)

Nelda is a girls' name, and first appears in 1884. It has been given to 20,134 children — the 929th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 41 births across the past decade, against a peak of 567 in a single year. That peak was in 1938.

1938Girls: 567Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Nelda?: Nelda ranks 929th among girls' names in US records, with 20,134 births since 1884. Over the past decade it accounts for 41.
Is Nelda a unisex name?: No. Nelda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Nelda most popular?: 1938, when 567 children were given the name. It has been in use for 141 years and is still recorded as of 2024.