Elda

Where Elda comes from

Elda 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 #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1895
    Peak, #379
    54 babies named Elda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    Elda Emma Anderson born
    American physicist
  4. 1928
    Elda Pucci born
    Italian politician
  5. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,329.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elda Emma Anderson · American physicist, 1899–1961
  • Elda Pucci · Italian politician, 1928–2005
  • Elda Ferri · Italian film producer, born 1937
  • Elda Tattoli · Italian actress, 1929–2005
  • Elda Peralta · Mexican actress and writer, 1922–2024

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.