girls:
12.8k births since 1880
#1382 (76th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1917
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
12.8k births since 1880
#2329 (70th percentile)
The name Wilda is the #2,329 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,773 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,382 (75.8% percentile) for all time with 12,758 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1917.
Wilda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys). Birth data for Wilda is available in 119 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (119 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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.
The name Wilda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Wilda reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 49.6% percentile (ranked #305) with 334 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 334 births per million (ranked 49.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Wilda reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #517) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wilda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Wilda is pronounced as WIHL-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAIL-duh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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