Given name
Aleda
“small and winged”
Aleda is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “small and winged.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “small and winged.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aleda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,046
- 0 boys · 1,046 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 650 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aleda’s family of names
Aleda has a related form in Alida. Aleda has a related form in Alita. Aleda has a related form in Aletta.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Alitavariant
- Alidavariant
- Alettavariant
- Alydavariant
- Allidavariant
- Alletavariant
- Aluldvariant
- Alledavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aleda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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