Entry № 4510 · Spanish origin

Imelda Imelda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-MEL-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Universal battle (Imelda Marcos; Imelda Staunton)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "universal battle (imelda marcos; imelda staunton)".

Imelda is the Spanish-Italian form of the Old Germanic Irmhild — ermen (universal) + hild (battle). Saint Imelda Lambertini (c.

Subject of Ramona Diaz's documentary Imelda (2003).

Universal battle (Imelda Marcos; Imelda Staunton) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Imelda
Transliteration
Imelda
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈmɛl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Imelda stands.

Imelda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Imeldas before her.

Real people
Imelda Marcos
First Lady of the Philippines.
born 1929
Imelda Staunton
British actress.
born 1956
In fiction
Imelda
Documentary Imelda.
2003

Names connected to Imelda.

The number behind Imelda.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Imelda reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.