Huldah
Huldah was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 856 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Huldah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Huldah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Huldah is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “weasel” (חולדה).
Borrowed from Hebrew חולדה (“weasel”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Huldah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,069, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1920, the peak
Huldah peaked in 1920, when 35 girls were given it, #1,328 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,086 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,492 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 5 | #4,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,261 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,850 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,484 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,949 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 18 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 16 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,055 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 14 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 16 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 23 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 12 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 27 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 16 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 18 | #774 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 23 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 18 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 14 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 16 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 16 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 17 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 13 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 15 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 15 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 11 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 11 | #674 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 14 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 12 | #569 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 12 | #545 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 10 | #557 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 8 | #648 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Huldah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Huldah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Huldah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Huldah, and how old are they?
An estimated 37 Americans named Huldah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 212 people named Huldah (210 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 56 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,263 babies since 1880, Huldah is the second most given (14% 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 Huldah
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 Huldah and names like it
- Compare Huldah and HuldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHuldah peaked in 1920.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Huldah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Huldah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Huldah.
- Names starting with HMost given first.