Given name & surname
Walda
“one who has fame and power”
Walda is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who has fame and power.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who has fame and power.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Walda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 330
- 0 boys · 330 girls
- Most popular year
- 1948
- 36 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 5 in 1957. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1948. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 305 as a first name in 2020; 140 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.
Walda’s family of names
Walda has a related form in Waldina. Walda has a related form in Walburga. Walda has a related form in Welda.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Weldavariant
- Waldinevariant
- Walidavariant
- Walburgavariant
- Waldeanavariant
- Welldavariant
- Waldynavariant
- Waldynevariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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