Wilda

Where Wilda comes from

Wilda 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 #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Wilda Bennett born
    American actress
  3. 1926
    Peak, #326
    411 babies named Wilda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #469.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Wilda Bennett · American actress, 1894–1967

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.