Meaning not yet researched.
Hilda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #87 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #87 in 1899; #3,007 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hilda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,007 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #87.
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Hilda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 girls in 2025. Peak: #87 in 1899 · most girls in one year: 2,128 (1921).
In 2025, 55 US girls were named Hilda, making it the 3,007th most common girls’ name of the year, up 22 places from #3,029 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 54 girls named Hilda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #87, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,128, in 1921. For comparison, it was #3,316 in 2015 and #296 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hilda in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 60 babies with the name. In all, 81,200 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 18,251 babies named Hilda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 485 US girls were named Hilda; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Hilde, Hylda and Hildah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Finnish and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hilde (392), Hylda (49), Hildah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hilda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,991 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,364 | — | — |
| 2012 | 65 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2002 | 120 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1997 | 112 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1993 | 152 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1992 | 158 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1991 | 163 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1990 | 158 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1989 | 172 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1988 | 139 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1987 | 146 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1986 | 170 | #934 | — | — |
| 1985 | 183 | #874 | — | — |
| 1984 | 188 | #832 | — | — |
| 1983 | 195 | #797 | 6 | #5,753 |
| 1982 | 219 | #757 | 6 | #5,929 |
| 1981 | 242 | #697 | — | — |
| 1980 | 253 | #684 | 8 | #4,671 |
| 1979 | 221 | #739 | — | — |
| 1978 | 237 | #671 | 5 | #6,176 |
| 1977 | 197 | #765 | — | — |
| 1976 | 279 | #585 | — | — |
| 1975 | 249 | #631 | — | — |
| 1974 | 304 | #552 | — | — |
| 1973 | 236 | #640 | — | — |
| 1972 | 284 | #578 | — | — |
| 1971 | 277 | #614 | — | — |
| 1970 | 298 | #589 | — | — |
| 1969 | 285 | #586 | — | — |
| 1968 | 250 | #609 | — | — |
| 1967 | 292 | #552 | — | — |
| 1966 | 291 | #555 | — | — |
| 1965 | 377 | #488 | — | — |
| 1964 | 411 | #476 | — | — |
| 1963 | 380 | #498 | — | — |
| 1962 | 428 | #466 | — | — |
| 1961 | 424 | #474 | — | — |
| 1960 | 458 | #456 | — | — |
| 1959 | 466 | #444 | — | — |
| 1958 | 524 | #405 | — | — |
| 1957 | 587 | #373 | 5 | #4,229 |
| 1956 | 626 | #348 | — | — |
| 1955 | 660 | #331 | — | — |
| 1954 | 658 | #330 | — | — |
| 1953 | 727 | #305 | — | — |
| 1952 | 665 | #313 | 5 | #3,968 |
| 1951 | 708 | #296 | — | — |
| 1950 | 682 | #296 | — | — |
| 1949 | 704 | #292 | — | — |
| 1948 | 798 | #273 | 5 | #3,899 |
| 1947 | 843 | #262 | — | — |
| 1946 | 718 | #270 | — | — |
| 1945 | 680 | #259 | — | — |
| 1944 | 745 | #241 | — | — |
| 1943 | 703 | #263 | — | — |
| 1942 | 784 | #244 | — | — |
| 1941 | 795 | #218 | — | — |
| 1940 | 797 | #215 | — | — |
| 1939 | 762 | #221 | — | — |
| 1938 | 850 | #205 | 7 | #3,001 |
| 1937 | 761 | #219 | — | — |
| 1936 | 822 | #204 | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1935 | 867 | #199 | — | — |
| 1934 | 929 | #192 | 5 | #3,913 |
| 1933 | 957 | #179 | 9 | #2,628 |
| 1932 | 1,105 | #172 | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1931 | 1,098 | #167 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1,303 | #158 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1929 | 1,334 | #157 | 10 | #2,674 |
| 1928 | 1,574 | #148 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,669 | #144 | 8 | #3,280 |
| 1926 | 1,847 | #139 | 11 | #2,641 |
| 1925 | 1,824 | #142 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,941 | #141 | 9 | #3,125 |
| 1923 | 1,862 | #140 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,962 | #131 | 5 | #4,601 |
| 1921 | 2,128 | #123 | 9 | #3,090 |
| 1920 | 2,050 | #125 | 8 | #3,338 |
| 1919 | 1,917 | #123 | — | — |
| 1918 | 2,118 | #114 | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1917 | 2,006 | #112 | 5 | #4,241 |
| 1916 | 2,075 | #105 | 8 | #3,038 |
| 1915 | 1,891 | #107 | — | — |
| 1914 | 1,525 | #103 | 8 | #2,531 |
| 1913 | 1,275 | #105 | 5 | #3,020 |
| 1912 | 1,158 | #104 | — | — |
| 1911 | 916 | #101 | — | — |
| 1910 | 793 | #109 | — | — |
| 1909 | 773 | #100 | 7 | #1,210 |
| 1908 | 735 | #102 | — | — |
| 1907 | 702 | #101 | — | — |
| 1906 | 705 | #97 | — | — |
| 1905 | 655 | #101 | — | — |
| 1904 | 629 | #98 | — | — |
| 1903 | 698 | #88 | — | — |
| 1902 | 649 | #94 | — | — |
| 1901 | 574 | #92 | — | — |
| 1900 | 663 | #101 | — | — |
| 1899 | 621 | #87 | — | — |
| 1898 | 610 | #97 | — | — |
| 1897 | 561 | #94 | — | — |
| 1896 | 549 | #95 | — | — |
| 1895 | 513 | #104 | — | — |
| 1894 | 470 | #106 | — | — |
| 1893 | 410 | #107 | — | — |
| 1892 | 370 | #121 | — | — |
| 1891 | 324 | #122 | — | — |
| 1890 | 304 | #128 | — | — |
| 1889 | 251 | #138 | — | — |
| 1888 | 219 | #146 | — | — |
| 1887 | 156 | #156 | — | — |
| 1886 | 143 | #161 | — | — |
| 1885 | 121 | #168 | — | — |
| 1884 | 125 | #157 | — | — |
| 1883 | 99 | #169 | — | — |
| 1882 | 58 | #226 | — | — |
| 1881 | 48 | #223 | — | — |
| 1880 | 60 | #199 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).