Hildred
Hildred was last recorded in 1965, when 6 babies were given it; 2,825 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hildred by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hildred mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hildred is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hildred?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,062, in 1965; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1923, the peak
Hildred peaked in 1923, when 107 babies were given it (88 girls, #779 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 6 | #6,062 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,990 | 6 | #3,802 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,296 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,825 | 5 | #4,241 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,443 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,667 | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,180 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,377 | 6 | #3,614 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,929 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,546 | 10 | #2,560 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 16 | #2,596 | 7 | #3,165 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,903 | 6 | #3,491 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,221 | 8 | #2,876 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,685 | 9 | #2,760 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,797 | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,807 | 6 | #3,141 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,557 | 5 | #3,634 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,289 | 5 | #3,758 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,643 | 7 | #3,066 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,513 | 10 | #2,404 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,450 | 10 | #2,389 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,363 | 10 | #2,345 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,570 | 7 | #3,001 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,397 | 7 | #3,029 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,397 | 7 | #3,004 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,174 | 15 | #1,874 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,274 | 10 | #2,464 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,127 | 9 | #2,628 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,202 | 16 | #1,880 |
| 1931 | 49 | #1,002 | 11 | #2,385 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,120 | 10 | #2,678 |
| 1929 | 63 | #905 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 1928 | 56 | #998 | 14 | #2,209 |
| 1927 | 64 | #942 | 6 | #3,955 |
| 1926 | 76 | #847 | 12 | #2,481 |
| 1925 | 72 | #875 | 11 | #2,660 |
| 1924 | 73 | #882 | 13 | #2,401 |
| 1923 | 88 | #779 | 19 | #1,835 |
| 1922 | 80 | #820 | 15 | #2,189 |
| 1921 | 76 | #849 | 15 | #2,198 |
| 1920 | 88 | #775 | 15 | #2,175 |
| 1919 | 76 | #807 | 10 | #2,768 |
| 1918 | 80 | #798 | 14 | #2,212 |
| 1917 | 76 | #794 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 1916 | 72 | #806 | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1915 | 84 | #726 | 5 | #4,079 |
| 1914 | 58 | #761 | 10 | #2,175 |
| 1913 | 53 | #715 | 9 | #2,006 |
| 1912 | 53 | #692 | 5 | #2,697 |
| 1911 | 46 | #638 | 5 | #1,861 |
| 1910 | 28 | #819 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 31 | #724 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 25 | #777 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 25 | #754 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 27 | #711 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 33 | #613 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 27 | #673 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 30 | #599 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 23 | #724 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 22 | #691 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 20 | #842 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 30 | #558 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 43 | #473 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 19 | #727 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 12 | #972 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 18 | #755 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 18 | #706 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 11 | #923 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 16 | #742 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,262 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 11 | #849 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,367 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Hildred a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,825 Americans recorded as Hildred, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hildred: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hildred, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Hildred and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (11% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 76 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 639 people named Hildred (514 women and girls, 125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 502 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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).
Where are babies named Hildred born?
The states with the most babies named Hildred are North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 119 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 79 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| West Virginia | 43 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maine | 23 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Hildred is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hildred is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hildred with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hildred
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 Hildred and names like it
- Compare Hildred and MyrlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHildred peaked in 1923.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hildred since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Hildred.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Hildred alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with HMost given first.