Almeda

Where Almeda comes from

Almeda 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 #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #343
    27 babies named Almeda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    Almeda Riddle born
    American singer
  4. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,379.
  5. 1992
    Almeda Abazi born
    Albanian actor
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Almeda Abazi · Albanian actor, born 1992
  • Almeda Riddle · American singer, 1898–1986
  • Almeda Eliza Hitchcock · Hawaiian lawyer and notary public, 1863–1895
  • Almeda C. Adams · US blind musician, teacher, and author, 1865–1949
  • Almeda Lambert · American cookbook writer and businessperson, 1863–1921

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.