Fewer than five US girls were named Hulda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #171, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 167, in 1895. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,131 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hulda in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 60 babies. In all, 5,407 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1890s, with 1,374 babies named Hulda.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Hulda.
Rarer spellings such as Huldah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.