Alda Forename
8,541st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 121,001 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
São Tomé and Príncipe
Alda Forename Definition:
A female name. Old German Alda, ‘old’. Alda or Aldabella was the name of the wife of Orlando and sister of Oliver in the Charlemagne romances, and the French form of the name, Aude, was not uncommon in England in the 12th C, and survived at least until the 14th C.
Read More About This ForenameAlda Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 38,956 | 1:5,499 | 733 |
| Angola | 100% | 19,434 | 1:1,388 | 279 |
| Mozambique | - | 15,360 | 1:1,774 | 392 |
| Italy | 100% | 10,735 | 1:5,688 | 479 |
| Portugal | - | 7,721 | 1:1,348 | 183 |
| United States | 100% | 5,138 | 1:70,560 | 3,528 |
| Argentina | 99% | 1,881 | 1:22,740 | 980 |
| Philippines | 97% | 1,686 | 1:62,876 | 4,202 |
| Indonesia | 97% | 1,476 | 1:174,772 | 17,440 |
| Chile | 99% | 1,252 | 1:14,063 | 915 |
| DR Congo | 80% | 1,205 | 1:61,268 | 3,732 |
| Albania | 100% | 1,122 | 1:2,715 | 568 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1,051 | 1:1,918 | 308 |
| Mexico | 100% | 1,036 | 1:119,831 | 2,789 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 831 | 1:4,125 | 438 |
| Congo | 90% | 766 | 1:6,539 | 907 |
| Canada | 100% | 763 | 1:43,425 | 3,008 |
| Colombia | 100% | 712 | 1:67,105 | 2,632 |
| Belgium | 100% | 642 | 1:17,897 | 1,455 |
| Gabon | 100% | 641 | 1:2,938 | 671 |
| Honduras | 100% | 621 | 1:14,199 | 1,215 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 618 | 1:311 | 29 |
| Peru | 100% | 520 | 1:61,137 | 2,785 |
| South Africa | 99% | 512 | 1:106,509 | 8,453 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 481 | 1:35,139 | 2,739 |
| Iceland | 100% | 411 | 1:891 | 183 |
| India | 85% | 361 | 1:3,365,313 | 147,348 |
| France | 100% | 343 | 1:193,791 | 3,205 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 310 | 1:26,495 | 1,623 |
| Jamaica | - | 266 | 1:10,839 | 1,196 |
| England | 100% | 265 | 1:209,822 | 6,105 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 259 | 1:116,610 | 5,059 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 233 | 1:132,243 | 12,172 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 229 | 1:45,551 | 3,173 |
| Cape Verde | - | 227 | 1:2,331 | 384 |
| Paraguay | 98% | 221 | 1:32,746 | 1,577 |
| Ecuador | - | 215 | 1:82,451 | 2,237 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 184 | 1:286,893 | 10,236 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 171 | 1:35,195 | 2,013 |
| Israel | 99% | 150 | 1:56,019 | 3,270 |
| Spain | 100% | 147 | 1:316,530 | 5,099 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 121 | 1:133,128 | 2,511 |
| Croatia | 100% | 120 | 1:35,142 | 1,448 |
| Panama | 100% | 117 | 1:33,389 | 2,657 |
| Benin | 100% | 98 | 1:107,917 | 6,491 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 83 | 1:57,445 | 2,386 |
| Russia | 97% | 83 | 1:1,737,755 | 12,313 |
| Germany | 100% | 71 | 1:1,361,660 | 9,336 |
| Ivory Coast | 94% | 69 | 1:334,434 | 14,194 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 68 | 1:36,158 | 1,749 |
| Sweden | 100% | 63 | 1:156,475 | 5,916 |
| El Salvador | - | 58 | 1:109,341 | 2,205 |
| Greece | 100% | 50 | 1:218,691 | 4,292 |
| Ireland | 100% | 49 | 1:94,766 | 2,403 |
| Cameroon | 53% | 47 | 1:459,798 | 15,245 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 44 | 1:12,819 | 954 |
| Belize | 100% | 40 | 1:8,858 | 1,415 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 40 | 1:761,248 | 29,188 |
| Senegal | 100% | 39 | 1:373,881 | 5,617 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 38 | 1:2,888 | 545 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Austria | 100% | 31 | 1:274,652 | 3,451 |
| Australia | - | 29 | 1:470,952 | 7,713 |
| Madagascar | - | 25 | 1:945,176 | 2,170 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 24 | 1:765,811 | 22,877 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 23 | 1:670,601 | 27,250 |
| French Polynesia | - | 22 | 1:12,632 | 1,507 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 20 | 1:2,456 | 492 |
| Seychelles | - | 19 | 1:4,877 | 888 |
| Aruba | - | 17 | 1:6,105 | 1,121 |
| Scotland | 100% | 16 | 1:334,398 | 4,869 |
| Georgia | 100% | 14 | 1:267,033 | 6,407 |
| Taiwan | - | 14 | 1:1,697,834 | 48,176 |
| Nigeria | 70% | 12 | 1:14,797,030 | 147,379 |
| Norway | 100% | 12 | 1:427,694 | 8,125 |
| Thailand | 100% | 12 | 1:5,838,818 | 101,178 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 12 | 1:113,452 | 7,514 |
| Ukraine | 92% | 12 | 1:3,791,659 | 7,438 |
| Estonia | 100% | 11 | 1:119,580 | 4,476 |
| Denmark | - | 10 | 1:564,950 | 8,399 |
| Papua New Guinea | 75% | 10 | 1:815,231 | 57,976 |
| Haiti | - | 9 | 1:1,191,884 | 16,425 |
| Uganda | 100% | 9 | 1:4,550,769 | 42,499 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 9 | 1:794,666 | 24,808 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 8 | 1:703,446 | 7,424 |
| Cuba | - | 7 | 1:1,643,793 | 4,685 |
| Hong Kong | - | 7 | 1:1,107,532 | 6,332 |
| Kosovo | - | 7 | 1:265,920 | 9,118 |
| Singapore | - | 7 | 1:898,151 | 14,197 |
| Finland | 100% | 6 | 1:913,864 | 8,662 |
| Turkey | 100% | 6 | 1:12,966,952 | 37,072 |
| China | - | 5 | 1:273,211,156 | 75,889 |
| Qatar | - | 5 | 1:473,921 | 38,106 |
| Bahrain | - | 4 | 1:337,168 | 4,986 |
| Czechia | 96% | 4 | 1:2,664,040 | 5,608 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Guyana | - | 4 | 1:190,816 | 11,826 |
| Namibia | - | 4 | 1:601,045 | 7,837 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Wales | 100% | 4 | 1:773,577 | 8,486 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Kazakhstan | 67% | 3 | 1:5,915,615 | 32,741 |
| Afghanistan | 50% | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Grenada | 100% | 2 | 1:54,062 | 3,078 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| New Zealand | - | 2 | 1:2,268,022 | 12,390 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Egypt | - | 1 | 1:91,900,946 | 53,283 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Japan | - | 1 | 1:127,986,057 | 94,066 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kenya | - | 1 | 1:46,307,110 | 74,921 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Niger | 100% | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Poland | 100% | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Serbia | 100% | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
Alda (10,976) may also be a surname.
Alda Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Old German Alda, ‘old’. Alda or Aldabella was the name of the wife of Orlando and sister of Oliver in the Charlemagne romances, and the French form of the name, Aude, was not uncommon in England in the 12th C, and survived at least until the 14th C.
Alda, Curia Regis Rolls 1199, Feudal Aids 1303.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. From a Teutonic radical meaning ‘rich’. In 1905, Helena Swan declared it to be obsolete: though a little unusual, it is not even obsolescent.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Middle English name, meaning: Continual.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
A Teutonic name, meaning: Happy: rich.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Alda Forename Popularity
Alda Demographics
Alda Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 1,053 (2014)
United States
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Alda Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Alda in the Russian language | ||
| Альда | alda | - |
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