Nilda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nilda

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,244 babies named Nilda between 1911 and 2016, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nilda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 118 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nilda performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 834 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Nilda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,412 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Nilda in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nilda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,244 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.