Hildegarde
Hildegarde is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 565th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1915124 births
- Best rank
- #565in 1901
- Since 1885
- 2,326people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,326 girls have been named Hildegarde in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 124 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 124 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1910s alone account for 31%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Hildegarde was the 584th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Hildegarde
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrlpeak 1916
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Flonniepeak 1914
- Lucilepeak 1917
- Hildredpeak 1920
- Leonepeak 1916
- Oziepeak 1922
- Eunapeak 1916
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.