Mathilda
Mathilda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 168th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918180 births
- Best rank
- #168in 1883
- Since 1880
- 7,495people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,495 girls have been named Mathilda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 180 births.
The name has all but left use: 30 births in 2024, against 180 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1913, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mathilda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,065 | |
| 1890s | 1,323 | |
| 1900s | 960 | |
| 1910s | 1,357 | |
| 1920s | 1,057 | |
| 1930s | 376 | |
| 1940s | 190 | |
| 1950s | 134 | |
| 1960s | 106 | |
| 1970s | 73 | |
| 1980s | 25 | |
| 1990s | 65 | |
| 2000s | 214 | |
| 2010s | 380 | |
| 2020s | 170 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Mathilda was the 512th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Mathilda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maymepeak 1915
- Nellepeak 1917
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Augustapeak 1915
- Doniepeak 1895
- Effiepeak 1919
- Mabellepeak 1893
- Maypeak 1919
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.