Clotilda
Clotilda was last recorded in 1961, when 5 babies were given it; 497 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clotilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clotilda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clotilda is “a female given name from the Germanic languages; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
A Latinate form of the French Clotilde, of Germanic origin (Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clotilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,725, in 1961; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1916, the peak
Clotilda peaked in 1916, when 24 girls were given it, #1,543 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 5 | #6,725 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,982 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,436 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,436 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,071 | 4.5 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,838 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,440 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,506 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,897 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,325 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 5 | #4,401 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,163 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,635 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,552 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,884 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,607 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,481 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,185 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,785 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,977 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,547 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,051 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,814 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,139 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,151 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,087 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,764 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,120 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,543 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,748 | 19.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,756 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,612 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,005 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,182 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,196 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,802 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,277 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,671 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,441 | 27.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,694 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,639 | 22.9 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,242 | 33.4 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,280 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,287 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,228 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,644 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,380 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 10 | #966 | 47.0 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,322 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Clotilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Clotilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Clotilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clotilda, and how old are they?
An estimated 38 Americans named Clotilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 184 people named Clotilda (183 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 68 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,515 babies since 1880, Clotilda is the second most given (33% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clotilda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Clotilda and names like it
- Compare Clotilda and ClotildeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClotilda peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clotilda since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Clotilda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Clotilda.
- Names starting with CMost given first.