girls:
1.5k births since 1894
#4232 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1894
#6233 (19th percentile)
The name Ilda is the #6,233 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,512 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 19.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,232 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,512 births since 1894.
Ilda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (first recorded for girls in 1894). Birth data for Ilda is available in 119 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ilda reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #576) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 61 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ilda ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ilda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ilda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 94.6% confident that Ilda is pronounced as IHL-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EEL-duh, at 5.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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