first name
IMELDA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 20,817 people named Imelda, 71.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 22.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 4.4% as White. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Imelda peaked in 1978, when 149 babies got the name.
At least 7,476 babies have been given the name since 1891. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Imelda by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #1,651. The largest share of babies named Imelda, 24.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Imelda is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Imelda has been most common in Texas (6×), California (3.7×), and Arizona (1.3×), and least common in New York (0.13×).
4,760 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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