Hildegarde — girls' name

What the Data Says About Hildegarde

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,326 babies named Hildegarde between 1885 and 1961, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hildegarde currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1961. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 124 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hildegarde performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 719 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Hildegarde shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Wisconsin, which accounts for 233 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Hildegarde in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hildegarde in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,326 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.