Yalda

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yalda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 576K(measured from records)
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.6K
  • SESweden1 in 33K

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.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈24,000 people, est.

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yalda 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.

Where Yalda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan#234≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K1Yalda11
IR Iran—≈600 est.≈1 in 141K—Yalda38
US United States—5771 in 576K721Yalda152
SE Sweden—3101 in 33K310Yalda14
DE Germany—≈250 est.≈1 in 316K—Yalda56
DK Denmark—571 in 103K57——
AT Austria—≈43 est.≈1 in 207K17Yalda12

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yalda is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Yaldá

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ялда, Ialda, Jalda, Yaldā

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Ýäldä

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yalda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, An Iranian festival celebrated on the longest and darkest night of the year (December 20 or 21), when friends and family gather to eat fruits and recite poetry.

    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)

1980199020002010Yalda Moaiery, b. 1981Yalda Hakim, b. 1983Yalda Valinejad, b. 2002

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Yalda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020721#33,925
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010492#43,811
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000267#68,782
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—216#3,891
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—30#16,705
AF AfghanistanWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#286
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Is Yalda a male or female name?
Yalda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Yalda have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Yalda in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yalda.
How common is the name Yalda?
In the United States, the national register counted 577 people named Yalda in 2020, about 1 in 576 thousand residents.
How common is Yalda compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Yalda is the 234th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yalda” — the 234th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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