Vada

Where Vada comes from

The dictionaries list Vada as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Vada Somerville born
    American suffragist
  3. 1901
    Peak, #331
    84 babies named Vada — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1938
    Vada Pinson born
    American baseball player and coach
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,705.
  6. 1984
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Vada Pinson · American baseball player and coach, 1938–1995
  • Vada Somerville · American suffragist, 1885–1972

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.