Hilda
Hilda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. Its best rank was 87th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 530.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19212,128 births
- Best rank
- #87in 1899
- Since 1880
- 80,965people given the name
The story in the numbers
80,965 girls have been named Hilda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 2,128 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 53 births in 2024, against 2,128 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hilda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,280 | |
| 1890s | 4,732 | |
| 1900s | 6,783 | |
| 1910s | 15,674 | |
| 1920s | 18,191 | |
| 1930s | 9,454 | |
| 1940s | 7,567 | |
| 1950s | 6,302 | |
| 1960s | 3,596 | |
| 1970s | 2,582 | |
| 1980s | 1,907 | |
| 1990s | 1,362 | |
| 2000s | 827 | |
| 2010s | 448 | |
| 2020s | 260 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Hilda was the 123rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Hilda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verdapeak 1918
- Mariepeak 1920
- Beaulahpeak 1921
- Fredapeak 1918
- Cecilepeak 1918
- Estherpeak 1918
- Izettapeak 1924
- Margueritepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
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.