Given name & surname
Yalda
“birth”
Yalda is a given name from Persian. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yalda goes back to Persian یلدا, meaning “birth.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Yalda comes from Persian, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yalda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 131
- 0 boys · 131 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #8,337 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,337 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 577 as a first name in 2020; 721 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.
Yalda’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yalda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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