Matylda
Matylda was last recorded in 2023, when 8 babies were given it; 156 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 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 Matylda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Matylda mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Matylda is “a female given name, equivalent to English Matilda”
Borrowed from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht + hild, hilta.
/maˈtɘl.da/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Matylda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,826, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2019, the peak
Matylda peaked in 2019, when 14 girls were given it, #8,006 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | #11,826 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,871 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,254 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,006 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,129 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,369 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,556 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,530 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,656 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,751 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,203 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,523 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,269 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,415 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,252 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,487 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,338 | 3.8 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,488 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,307 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Matylda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Matylda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Matylda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Matylda, and how old are they?
An estimated 145 Americans named Matylda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 40,874 babies since 1880, Matylda is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 865 babies recorded by SSA was a Matylda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Matylda
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 Matylda and names like it
- Compare Matylda and MatildaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMatylda peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Matylda since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Matylda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Matylda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Matylda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.