Meaning not yet researched.
Hildegard: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #617 in 1906.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #617 in 1906; #7,627 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hildegard in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,627 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #617.
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Hildegard: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #617 in 1906 · most girls in one year: 81 (1915).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Hildegard, making it the 7,627th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,132 places from #6,495 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 18 girls named Hildegard in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #617, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 81, in 1915. For comparison, it was #15,210 in 2015 and #4,479 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hildegard in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 1,945 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 483 babies named Hildegard.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US girls were named Hildegard; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hildegarde (2,326 babies since 1880).
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 and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Hildegard 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 | 14 | #7,627 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,495 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,261 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,198 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,479 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,888 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,088 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,796 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,376 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,210 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,316 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,388 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,520 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,284 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,499 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,940 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,427 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,450 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,546 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,907 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1930 | 50 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1929 | 44 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1927 | 57 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1924 | 38 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1919 | 50 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1918 | 57 | #954 | — | — |
| 1917 | 63 | #869 | — | — |
| 1916 | 70 | #813 | — | — |
| 1915 | 81 | #740 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #881 | — | — |
| 1913 | 39 | #847 | — | — |
| 1912 | 45 | #751 | — | — |
| 1911 | 22 | #943 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #895 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1907 | 18 | #904 | — | — |
| 1906 | 34 | #617 | — | — |
| 1905 | 21 | #810 | — | — |
| 1904 | 23 | #740 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #846 | — | — |
| 1902 | 28 | #630 | — | — |
| 1901 | 21 | #709 | — | — |
| 1900 | 23 | #768 | — | — |
| 1899 | 20 | #715 | — | — |
| 1898 | 16 | #862 | — | — |
| 1897 | 14 | #879 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #693 | — | — |
| 1895 | 13 | #910 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #843 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1891 | 11 | #862 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,197 | — | — |
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).