Girls' name · since 1915
Welda
Welda has 118 recorded births since 1915 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1942 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,369 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 118
- born since 1915
- 1930s
- peak decade
Welda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 118 have been recorded since 1915.
Welda has 118 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 1953.
- #25,369 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 118 born since 1915
- 1930s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Welda ranks #25,369 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 118 born since 1915, peaking in the 1930s.
- #25,369 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 118
- born since 1915
- 1930s
- peak decade
Welda's 118 recorded births place it above 64.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Welda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Welda splits its recorded history at 1933: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1915 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1942 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Welda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–1953
- Peak year (1942)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 39 years of records
Welda by decade
1930s is the heaviest window (37 births, 31% of the file).
1930s was Welda's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 31% of all-time use.
Welda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
15 births
- 1920s
1920s
31 births
- 1930s
1930s
37 births
- 1940s
1940s
28 births
- 1950s 7
1950s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 37 births (31% of all-time use).
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- Welda's decade-level peak was the 1930s (37 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 1950s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Welda: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1942)
Similar record span (~38 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–1953 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Welda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.