Hildred — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hildred

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,404 babies named Hildred between 1889 and 1965, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hildred currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1965. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 88 babies received it in a single year. Hildred is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 421 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hildred performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 736 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Hildred shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 119 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Hildred in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hildred 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 2,404 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.