Elda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante italiana de Hilda
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/eld̪a/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Elda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 1.8K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variante italiana de Hilda.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elda, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elda 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #478 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 213 | Elda | 152 |
| AR Argentina | #432 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2 | Elda | 62 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,825 | 1 in 24K | 10K | Elda | 94 |
| US United States | — | 8,580 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Elda | 265 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 8 | Elda | 81 |
| HN Honduras | #210 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Elda | 22 |
| NI Nicaragua | #272 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Elda | 13 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,730 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.7K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,172 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | 24 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Elda 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, var. de Ilda
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variantes: Eir, Eirah, Eyr, Eyra, Eyrah
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In German, weibl. Vom., itaHenische Form von Hilda
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Battaglia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian: not in use before the 20th century. It seems to represent an altered form of HILDA .
as a word
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)- Hedda Hopperb. 1885USnot in their usual nameAmerican gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
- Elda Emma Andersonb. 1899USAmerican physicist (1899-1961)
- Elda Ferrib. 1937ITItalian film producer (born 1937)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)70 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elda mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante italiana de Hilda. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Which countries have the most people named Elda?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Elda in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elda. After it come Argentina, Brazil, United States and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- What are other forms of the name Elda?
- In the etymology graph, Hilda, Ilda and Hilde are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elda?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /eld̪a/; in Portuguese /ɛldɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Elda a male or female name?
- Elda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo), among others.
- How common is the name Elda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,825 people named Elda in 2022, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Elda compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Elda is the 478th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eldaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Elda” — the 478th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.