Alda

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germanic name, probably from elements meaning 'old' or 'noble'.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 6.7K
  • BRBrazil1 in 8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

26,428 people, 2022

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 958 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Germanic name, probably from elements meaning 'old' or 'noble'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Alda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#75026,4281 in 8K33KAlda113
PT Portugal#235≈4,700 est.≈1 in 2.2KlistedAlda81
IT Italy—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 15K—Alda74
AO Angola#502≈2,800 est.≈1 in 11K—Alda20
US United States—2,5541 in 130K2.5KAlda152
AL Albania—7371 in 4.2K737——
LV Latvia—6911 in 2.7K691Alda6
UY Uruguay#329≈510 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Alda21
IS Iceland—3661 in 958370——

26,428 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alda is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Àlda, Àldå, Aldá, Äļďä

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Also written 'Alda, Alda', Aldá

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Belgium

    Also written Aldä

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Aldà, Aldá

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Latvia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Алда

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, do germânico alda, velho, ancião, sábio

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Alan, US actor, writer, director

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Forme italienne d’Aude; d’origine germanique, signifie « ancienne ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Origine germanique, « noble guerre ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Germanic adal « noble ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Alda of Italy, b. 925Alda Garrido, b. 1896Alda Mangini, b. 1914Alda Noni, b. 1916Alda do Espírito Santo, b. 1926Alda Merini, b. 1931Dada Gallotti, b. 1935Alda D'Eusanio, b. 1950Alda Moreno, b. 1974Magyari Alda, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 88 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Alda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—33K#1,035
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202226K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—26K#893
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.5K#6,317
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—737#665
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—691—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—687#515
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005370#98
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026366—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—130#893
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202068—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202054#6,317

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Alda a male or female name?
Alda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Alda mean, and where does it come from?
Germanic name, probably from elements meaning 'old' or 'noble'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Alda?
In the etymology graph, Aline, Ada and Adela are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Alda have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Alda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alda.
Where is Alda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alda is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 958 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Alda?
In Brazil, the national register counted 26,428 people named Alda in 2022, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
How common is Alda compared with other names?
In Brazil, Alda is the 750th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alda” — the 750th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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