Ida
Ida is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 211 births. Its best rank was 7th, in 1880–1882, 1884, 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19184,450 births
- Best rank
- #7first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 187,714people given the name
The story in the numbers
187,714 girls have been named Ida in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 4,450 births — 0.38% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 211 births in 2024, against 4,450 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 52 of them in the top 100 and 8 in the top 10.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ida | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18,283 | |
| 1890s | 21,212 | |
| 1900s | 18,866 | |
| 1910s | 34,792 | |
| 1920s | 35,619 | |
| 1930s | 20,233 | |
| 1940s | 14,291 | |
| 1950s | 9,761 | |
| 1960s | 5,605 | |
| 1970s | 2,838 | |
| 1980s | 1,687 | |
| 1990s | 1,067 | |
| 2000s | 915 | |
| 2010s | 1,487 | |
| 2020s | 1,058 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Ida was the 57th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Ida
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Lulapeak 1921
- Ettapeak 1920
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Salliepeak 1916
- Addiepeak 1920
- Jenniepeak 1917
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.