Nelda was the #9,457 girls' name in the US in 2025 (10 babies).
Nelda as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
2025
#9,457 (10)
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2024
#8,946 (11)
#5,892 (3)
2022
#12,243 (7)
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2020
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#5,493 (3)
2019
#13,799 (6)
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2018
#13,793 (6)
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2017
#15,902 (5)
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2015
#14,482 (6)
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2014
#16,513 (5)
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2007
#15,491 (6)
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2006
#11,417 (9)
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2005
#11,834 (8)
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2004
#16,099 (5)
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2003
#9,671 (10)
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2002
#15,432 (5)
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The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1938 at #266.
First recorded in the US in 1884.
How common is it?
about 1 in 170,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.