Alida
Alida is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 403rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191764 births
- Best rank
- #403in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,624people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,624 girls have been named Alida in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 64 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1950s alone account for 9.9%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alida | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 167 | |
| 1890s | 258 | |
| 1900s | 223 | |
| 1910s | 407 | |
| 1920s | 370 | |
| 1930s | 297 | |
| 1940s | 372 | |
| 1950s | 460 | |
| 1960s | 323 | |
| 1970s | 382 | |
| 1980s | 333 | |
| 1990s | 294 | |
| 2000s | 312 | |
| 2010s | 295 | |
| 2020s | 131 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Alida was the 859th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Alida
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deliapeak 1957
- Minervapeak 1955
- Rosapeak 1925
- Laviniapeak 1921
- Annapeak 1918
- Estellapeak 1921
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Susiepeak 1919
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.