Given name & surname
Almeda
“one who is ambitious”·“resembling a pearl”
Almeda is a variant of Almeta. Interpretations include “one who is ambitious” and “resembling a pearl”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Almeda is a variant of Almeta. Interpretations include “one who is ambitious” and “resembling a pearl”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Almeda is a variant of Almeta. Almeta has been associated with Latin and Danish naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Almeda as a surname developed from ALMEIDA.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Almeda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,402
- 0 boys · 4,402 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 135 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 135 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 965 as a first name in 2020; 1,555 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Almeda’s family of names
In English usage, Almeda as a surname developed from the Spanish form ALMEIDA. Almeda has a related form in Almeta. In Spanish usage, Almeda as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Portuguese form ALMEIDA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Almeda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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