Hildred
Hildred is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 473rd, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192088 births
- Best rank
- #473in 1898
- Since 1889
- 2,825people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,404 girls have been named Hildred in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 88 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 88 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 421 boys have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Hildred was the 775th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hildred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrlpeak 1916
- Buelahpeak 1927
- Gladyspeak 1920
- Hildegardpeak 1915
- Oziepeak 1922
- Hildegardepeak 1915
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Flonniepeak 1914
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.