Hulda
Hulda was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 5,407 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hulda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hulda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hulda is “a female given name, variant of Huldah.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hulda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,947, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
167 babies in 1895, the peak
Hulda peaked in 1895, when 167 girls were given it, #207 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #10,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,820 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 12 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,550 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,808 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,347 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 64 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 71 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 70 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 82 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 95 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 101 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 93 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 131 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 101 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 124 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 148 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 131 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 98 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 92 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1912 | 84 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 76 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1910 | 75 | #462 | 0.19 |
| 1909 | 76 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 66 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1907 | 86 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1906 | 75 | #398 | 0.25 |
| 1905 | 97 | #346 | 0.33 |
| 1904 | 92 | #340 | 0.33 |
| 1903 | 108 | #303 | 0.41 |
| 1902 | 89 | #333 | 0.34 |
| 1901 | 104 | #299 | 0.43 |
| 1900 | 110 | #322 | 0.37 |
| 1899 | 118 | #262 | 0.51 |
| 1898 | 138 | #254 | 0.53 |
| 1897 | 130 | #249 | 0.56 |
| 1896 | 129 | #252 | 0.54 |
| 1895 | 167 | #207 | 0.71 |
| 1894 | 144 | #222 | 0.65 |
| 1893 | 137 | #222 | 0.64 |
| 1892 | 126 | #233 | 0.59 |
| 1891 | 138 | #196 | 0.74 |
| 1890 | 147 | #197 | 0.77 |
| 1889 | 139 | #192 | 0.78 |
| 1888 | 126 | #200 | 0.71 |
| 1887 | 108 | #194 | 0.74 |
| 1886 | 85 | #215 | 0.59 |
| 1885 | 113 | #171 | 0.85 |
| 1884 | 86 | #202 | 0.67 |
| 1883 | 71 | #208 | 0.63 |
| 1882 | 67 | #203 | 0.62 |
| 1881 | 44 | #236 | 0.48 |
| 1880 | 60 | #200 | 0.66 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hulda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hulda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hulda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hulda, and how old are they?
An estimated 203 Americans named Hulda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (4% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 74 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 635 people named Hulda (635 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 330 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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).
Where are babies named Hulda born?
The states with the most babies named Hulda are North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; North Dakota and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 105 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 97 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kansas | 45 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Hulda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hulda is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1910 it was given 6.2 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 Hulda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,263 babies since 1880, Hulda is the most given (86% 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 Hulda
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 Hulda and names like it
- Compare Hulda and HuldahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sHulda peaked in 1895.
- North Dakota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hulda since 1910.
- The top names of 1895The year the most babies were named Hulda.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Hulda alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with HMost given first.