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Gilda

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Gilda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 381st, in 1927.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
100.00% of girls
Peak year
1947346 births
Best rank
#381in 1927
Since 1898
10,077people given the name
Babies named Gilda, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

10,077 girls have been named Gilda in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 346 births.

The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 346 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Gilda
1890s6
1900s94
1910s899
1920s2,160
1930s1,224
1940s1,520
1950s2,079
1960s912
1970s462
1980s265
1990s262
2000s92
2010s62
2020s40

In 1947, its biggest year

Gilda was the 441st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.

Names that rose and fell with Gilda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.