Valda
Valda 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
- 195762 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1897
- 1,866people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,866 girls have been named Valda in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1950s alone account for 22%.
By decade
In 1957, its biggest year
Valda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Valda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Veldapeak 1920
- Lorettepeak 1956
- Germainepeak 1928
- Reathapeak 1927
- Geneviapeak 1924
- Bernettapeak 1921
- Delmapeak 1926
- Lorainepeak 1922
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.