Fewer than five US girls were named Gilda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #381, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 346, in 1947. For comparison, it was #11,216 in 2015 and #541 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gilda in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 6 babies. In all, 10,078 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,160 babies named Gilda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 64 US girls were named Gilda; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 12.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Glenda (109,522 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.