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Hilda

Girl's name · #3007 in the US (2025) · Vintage

Popularity over time

Hilda belongs to an older America first — it reached #87 back in 1899 — yet it still appears in today's records at #3007. About 81,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 3 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#23 in Finland (Finnish-sp.) (2025) · #47 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #70 in Sweden (2025) · #352 in Austria (2025) · #471 in Norway (2025) · #1,075 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,273 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,843 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,985 in France (2025) · #3,195 in Canada (2024).

Famous Hildas

• Hilda Heine — Marshallese politician
• Hilda Solis — 25th United States Secretary of Labor
• Hilda Geiringer — Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
• Hilda Gadea — Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974
• Hilda — Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England

In stories & tradition

• Hilda Ogden — Coronation Street (TV series)
• Hilda Suarez — Ugly Betty (TV series)
• Hilda Spellman — Sabrina the Teenage Witch (comics)

What Hildas become

Among 706 notable people named Hilda:

Artists & writers appear 1.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hilda Gadea, Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974.

Similar names: Mildred · Ilah · Golda · Roberta · Ida · Zelda

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