Walda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic name stem with *wald- 'rule'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈvɑɫdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Walda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 293K(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 73K
- UYUruguay1 in 75K
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)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
722 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a Germanic name stem with *wald- 'rule'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Walda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 722 | 1 in 293K | 762 | Walda | 39 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Walda | 5 |
| US United States | 305 | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Walda | 58 |
| PH Philippines | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 368K | — | Walda | 7 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Walda | 7 |
| HN Honduras | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Walda | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 6 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 45 | 1 in 75K | 45 | Walda | 8 |
722 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Walda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
European/Teutonic: 'forest' or 'rule'
as a nameAfrican Names
Soberana
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In bjb, I say!, pray!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Dorothea Waldab. 1931DEGerman actress (1931–2016)
- Dick Waldab. 1940NLDutch writer
- Sebastian Waldab. 2000PLPolish basketball player (born 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).
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 159 | #104,257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 155 | #113,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 140 | #127,742 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #106,762 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #20,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Walda mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic name stem with *wald- 'rule' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Walda?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɑɫdə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Walda a male or female name?
- Walda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Walda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 722 people named Walda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled walda.
- How common is the name Walda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 722 people named Walda in 2022, about 1 in 293 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waldaThe 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, “Walda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.