Wilda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Wilda

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,758 babies named Wilda between 1880 and 2022, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wilda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 411 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wilda performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,643 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Wilda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 1,064 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Wilda in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wilda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,758 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.