Mathilde
Mathilde was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,844 among girls’ names; 1,793 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mathilde by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mathilde mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mathilde is “a female given name.”
From French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish Mathilde, equivalents of Matilda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mathilde?
#5,844 among girls’ names, 2025
Mathilde fell from #5,069 in 2015 to #5,844 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 13.1 per million.
32 babies in 1894, the peak
Mathilde peaked in 1894, when 32 girls were given it, #512 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,844 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,827 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,826 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,135 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,503 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,529 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,106 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,848 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,769 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,553 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,069 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,623 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,633 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,640 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,401 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,726 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,980 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,834 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,047 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,543 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,554 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,861 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,853 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,127 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,536 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,380 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,063 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,499 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,419 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,753 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,669 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,360 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,795 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,068 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,359 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,484 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,024 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 27 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 24 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 18 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 16 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 26 | #727 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 18 | #870 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 15 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 20 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 21 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 24 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 12 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 29 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 22 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 22 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 30 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 32 | #512 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 28 | #528 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 27 | #535 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 26 | #512 | 0.14 |
| 1890 | 25 | #534 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 25 | #505 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 26 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 27 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1886 | 21 | #488 | 0.15 |
| 1885 | 18 | #516 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 18 | #494 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 12 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 14 | #500 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 11 | #526 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 11 | #537 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mathilde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mathilde has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mathilde: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mathilde, and how old are they?
An estimated 689 Americans named Mathilde and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,360 people named Mathilde (1,352 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 Mathilde born?
The states with the most babies named Mathilde are Louisiana, New York and California, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 101 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Mathilde is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mathilde is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 4.6 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 Mathilde 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 9,320 babies since 1880, Mathilde is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 53 babies (40%), again the second most given.
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 Mathilde
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 Mathilde and names like it
- Compare Mathilde and MathildaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sMathilde peaked in 1894.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mathilde since 1910.
- The top names of 1894The year the most babies were named Mathilde.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mathilde alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.