Amelda

Last seen for girls in 1971 at #8,324

Peak · girls
1942 · 13 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
198
since 1916

Amelda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Amelda has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201931peak #2,537, 1942girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1971#8,3245
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1963#5,8916
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1960#4,4379
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1955#5,8285
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1952#4,4837
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1948#5,2435
1947#3,7069
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1945#4,0256
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1942#2,53713
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1940#3,8636
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1937#3,4347
1936#3,3767
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1934#4,2865
1933#3,7536
1932#3,0479
1931#2,58111
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1927#3,5618
1926#3,5648
1925#4,0287
1924#3,3939
1923
1922#3,6558
1921#3,6668
1920#2,89911
1919#3,4528
1918#3,02410
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1916#4,4175
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Amelda! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Amelda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
Rise & fade · girls
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1942 at #2,537 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1943, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 96,793
  • Highest: 1 in 96,793 girls born in 1931 were named Amelda (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 332,765 girls born in 1971 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,537 in 1942, was only 1 in 103,901 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 29.8% of all girls named Amelda (59) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s23#3,024 (1918)#3,631
1920s59#2,899 (1920)#3,538
1930s45#2,581 (1931)#3,413
1940s39#2,537 (1942)#3,875
1950s12#4,483 (1952)#5,156
1960s15#4,437 (1960)#5,164
1970s5#8,324 (1971)#8,324

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amelda in 1931

girls
#2,581
11 births · 1 in 96,793 girls

Top girls' names in 1931

  1. #1Mary60,299
  2. #2Betty36,105
  3. #3Dorothy26,524
  4. #4Barbara21,804
  5. #5Joan19,119
  6. #6Helen17,664
  7. #7Margaret17,332
  8. #8Patricia16,469
  9. #9Shirley14,405
  10. #10Doris13,629
  11. #2,581Amelda11
More about 1931

girls

1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 96,793 of them was named Amelda, which outranked 48.2% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amelda
  1. #2,427Wenona12
  2. #2,427Wylodean12
  3. #2,427Yuriko12
  4. #2,581Amelda11
  5. #2,581Adel11
  6. #2,581Aloma11
  7. #2,581Alton11
  8. #2,750Adda10
  9. #2,750Aldean10
  10. #2,750Aldora10

Tied with 168 names at #2,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1930
Risers
  1. 857Joretta#1,320#463
  2. 519Joetta#1,460#941
  3. 483Sondra#1,031#548
  4. 465Celine#1,460#995
  5. 343Lynne#1,274#931
Fallers
  1. 377Margo#937#1,314
  2. 349Rachael#894#1,243
  3. 317Evelyne#926#1,243
  4. 287Vivien#971#1,258
  5. 283Ardeth#629#912

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1931