Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Selda

#26,506 most common girls' name of all time · #42,916 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1909–1938

Rank among girls
#26,506
Rank overall
#42,916 of 105,966
First appeared
1909
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
86
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1919 #2,482
Best rank
#2,482 1919
Girls Boys peak 14/yr
1920

Selda first appears in 1909. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1938 9 — 9 #3,061
1934 7 — 7 #3,590
1928 5 — 5 #4,941
1927 5 — 5 #5,065
1926 5 — 5 #5,091
1924 6 — 6 #4,639
1923 6 — 6 #4,577
1922 6 — 6 #4,648
1921 7 — 7 #4,193
1919 14 — 14 #2,482
1918 11 — 11 #2,953
1909 5 — 5 #2,535