Emelda
Emelda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192634 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1907
- 1,396people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,396 girls have been named Emelda in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 34 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 34 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 21%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Emelda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 153 | |
| 1920s | 288 | |
| 1930s | 218 | |
| 1940s | 190 | |
| 1950s | 194 | |
| 1960s | 131 | |
| 1970s | 103 | |
| 1980s | 73 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 11 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Emelda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Emelda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Paulenepeak 1920
- Onitapeak 1925
- Loletapeak 1923
- Juanitapeak 1924
- Christeenpeak 1928
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Francepeak 1918
- Domingapeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.