Alda

Where Alda comes from

Alda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1901
    Peak, #448
    44 babies named Alda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1926
    Alda da Graça born
    poet and politician from Sao Tome and Principe
  4. 1931
    Alda Merini born
    Italian writer and poet
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,581.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alda Merini · Italian writer and poet, 1931–2009
  • Alda da Graça · poet and politician from Sao Tome and Principe, 1926–2010
  • Alda Lara · Angolan poet, 1930–1962
  • Alda Bandeira · São Tomé and Príncipe politician, born 1949
  • Alda Magyari · Hungarian water polo player, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.