Mathilde
Mathilde is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 431st, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 189432 births
- Best rank
- #431in 1887
- Since 1880
- 1,772people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,772 girls have been named Mathilde in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1894, with 32 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 32 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1890s alone account for 14%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mathilde | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 183 | |
| 1890s | 253 | |
| 1900s | 187 | |
| 1910s | 244 | |
| 1920s | 182 | |
| 1930s | 49 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 13 | |
| 1960s | 5 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 1980s | 18 | |
| 1990s | 96 | |
| 2000s | 180 | |
| 2010s | 237 | |
| 2020s | 103 |
In 1894, its biggest year
Mathilde was the 512th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1894 were Mary, Anna, Margaret, Helen and Elizabeth. See all of 1894.
Names that rose and fell with Mathilde
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathildapeak 1918
- Besspeak 1889
- Huldapeak 1895
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Nellepeak 1917
- Minnapeak 1916
- Maymepeak 1915
- Pearlepeak 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.