Ilda
Ilda was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,522 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ilda mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Ilda is “a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda” Its etymology gives the sense “battle, fight” (*hildiz).
Originating as a diminutive of names bearing the Proto-Germanic element *hildiz (“battle, fight”).
/ˈil.da/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,213, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1921, the peak
Ilda peaked in 1921, when 34 girls were given it, #1,386 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,213 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,645 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,242 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,040 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,466 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,981 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,827 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,476 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,327 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,691 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,804 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,735 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,829 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,678 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,699 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,414 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,692 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,264 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,532 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,065 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,086 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,783 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,403 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,841 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,264 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,383 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,705 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,538 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,065 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,200 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,114 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,599 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,146 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,701 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,581 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,544 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,930 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,037 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,343 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,070 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,813 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,249 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,479 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,966 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,667 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,723 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,427 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,919 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,272 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,163 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,011 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,769 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,844 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,087 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,387 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,025 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,036 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,037 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,691 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,213 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,375 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,780 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,134 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,661 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,349 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,970 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,888 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,871 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,988 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,931 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,176 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,482 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,401 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,967 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,164 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,502 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,951 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,919 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,924 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,331 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,239 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,594 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,086 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,356 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,229 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,562 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,411 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,768 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,055 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,912 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,134 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,788 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,624 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,665 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,693 | 20.8 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,977 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,222 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,386 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,919 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,116 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,914 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,448 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,503 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,760 | 19.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,186 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,559 | 24.0 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,714 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,466 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,860 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,231 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,334 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,372 | 30.5 |
| 1905 | 19 | #859 | 65.2 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,412 | 29.1 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,497 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,714 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,812 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,452 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,079 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,495 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,282 | 31.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ilda, and how old are they?
An estimated 869 Americans named Ilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 30 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,335 people named Ilda (3,326 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 914 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 Ilda born?
The states with the most babies named Ilda are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 211 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Ilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ilda is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Ilda 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 1,661 babies since 1880, Ilda is the most given (92% 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 Ilda
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 Ilda and names like it
- Compare Ilda and IlaydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sIlda peaked in 1921.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ilda since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Ilda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Ilda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ilda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with IMost given first.