Hildreth — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hildreth

The Social Security Administration has registered 789 babies named Hildreth between 1892 and 1956, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hildreth currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1956. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Hildreth is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 97 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hildreth performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 263 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Hildreth shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Indiana and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Hildreth in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hildreth 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 789 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.