Meaning not yet researched.
Mathilda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #168 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #168 in 1883; #4,423 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mathilda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,423 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #168.
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Mathilda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #168 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 180 (1918).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Mathilda, making it the 4,423rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 206 places from #4,629 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 30 girls named Mathilda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #168, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 180, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,200 in 2015 and #3,164 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mathilda in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 72 babies. In all, 7,527 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,357 babies named Mathilda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 352 US girls were named Mathilda; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Matilda (37,280 babies since 1880) and Matilde (3,438 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Patty and Tillie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Swedish. 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).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,423 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,081 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,345 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,324 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,368 | — | — |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,927 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,490 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,001 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,519 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,242 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,620 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,928 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,359 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,098 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,785 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,773 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,768 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,712 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,385 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,075 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,256 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,004 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,042 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,875 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,959 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,148 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,274 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,172 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1932 | 47 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1928 | 57 | #989 | — | — |
| 1927 | 79 | #829 | — | — |
| 1926 | 88 | #772 | — | — |
| 1925 | 100 | #739 | — | — |
| 1924 | 113 | #702 | — | — |
| 1923 | 140 | #624 | — | — |
| 1922 | 140 | #622 | — | — |
| 1921 | 147 | #596 | — | — |
| 1920 | 146 | #595 | — | — |
| 1919 | 142 | #590 | — | — |
| 1918 | 180 | #512 | — | — |
| 1917 | 164 | #524 | — | — |
| 1916 | 170 | #496 | — | — |
| 1915 | 146 | #520 | — | — |
| 1914 | 142 | #460 | — | — |
| 1913 | 101 | #508 | — | — |
| 1912 | 120 | #430 | — | — |
| 1911 | 97 | #408 | — | — |
| 1910 | 95 | #405 | — | — |
| 1909 | 84 | #398 | — | — |
| 1908 | 85 | #394 | — | — |
| 1907 | 90 | #371 | — | — |
| 1906 | 102 | #331 | — | — |
| 1905 | 84 | #372 | — | — |
| 1904 | 101 | #325 | — | — |
| 1903 | 88 | #333 | — | — |
| 1902 | 104 | #310 | — | — |
| 1901 | 109 | #287 | — | — |
| 1900 | 113 | #314 | — | — |
| 1899 | 127 | #249 | — | — |
| 1898 | 130 | #266 | — | — |
| 1897 | 108 | #274 | — | — |
| 1896 | 121 | #260 | — | — |
| 1895 | 127 | #246 | — | — |
| 1894 | 136 | #229 | — | — |
| 1893 | 148 | #210 | — | — |
| 1892 | 150 | #207 | — | — |
| 1891 | 138 | #197 | — | — |
| 1890 | 138 | #201 | — | — |
| 1889 | 168 | #175 | — | — |
| 1888 | 133 | #195 | — | — |
| 1887 | 138 | #171 | — | — |
| 1886 | 120 | #184 | — | — |
| 1885 | 102 | #186 | — | — |
| 1884 | 95 | #185 | — | — |
| 1883 | 100 | #168 | — | — |
| 1882 | 68 | #202 | — | — |
| 1881 | 69 | #180 | — | — |
| 1880 | 72 | #177 | — | — |
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).