Matilde
Matilde is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 639th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192765 births
- Best rank
- #639in 1883
- Since 1883
- 3,411people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,193 girls have been named Matilde in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 65 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 218 boys have also been given it, 6.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Matilde | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 52 | |
| 1900s | 102 | |
| 1910s | 177 | |
| 1920s | 417 | |
| 1930s | 331 | |
| 1940s | 191 | |
| 1950s | 189 | |
| 1960s | 227 | |
| 1970s | 295 | |
| 1980s | 209 | |
| 1990s | 203 | |
| 2000s | 277 | |
| 2010s | 303 | |
| 2020s | 192 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Matilde was the 932nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Matilde
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Petrapeak 1927
- Franciscapeak 1928
- Rafaelapeak 2011
- Manuelapeak 1924
- Eloisapeak 2024
- Zenobiapeak 1923
- Corinnepeak 1978
- Esterpeak 1925
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.