Nilda
Nilda was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 3,244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Nilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 49 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nilda mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Nilda is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “battle” (hild).
Short form of Germanic given names composed of a first element ending in -n and the second element hild (“battle”), such as Brunilda, Zunilda or Leonilda.
/ˈnilda/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,705, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1957, the peak
Nilda peaked in 1957, when 118 girls were given it, #949 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #15,705 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,803 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,562 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,179 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,964 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,700 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,694 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,791 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,081 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,840 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | #10,765 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,492 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,582 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,741 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,083 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,255 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,608 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,552 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,925 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,639 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,162 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,637 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,854 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,602 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,938 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,844 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,425 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,656 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,538 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,501 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,830 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,687 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,294 | 26.2 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,035 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,598 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,162 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,013 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,813 | 33.4 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,904 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,485 | 42.7 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,847 | 28.8 |
| 1970 | 84 | #1,291 | 48.1 |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,539 | 35.6 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,467 | 36.6 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,265 | 44.2 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,222 | 46.1 |
| 1965 | 88 | #1,133 | 49.9 |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,187 | 45.9 |
| 1963 | 95 | #1,123 | 49.3 |
| 1962 | 103 | #1,065 | 52.4 |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,179 | 43.6 |
| 1960 | 102 | #1,066 | 50.4 |
| 1959 | 100 | #1,072 | 49.4 |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,048 | 49.7 |
| 1957 | 118 | #949 | 57.7 |
| 1956 | 91 | #1,081 | 45.3 |
| 1955 | 93 | #1,047 | 47.6 |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,128 | 39.7 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,149 | 37.7 |
| 1952 | 69 | #1,143 | 37.2 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,496 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,256 | 31.5 |
| 1949 | 51 | #1,285 | 29.8 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,540 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,028 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,386 | 25.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,035 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,364 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,217 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,020 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,863 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,536 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,186 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,088 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,281 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,627 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,184 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,687 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,026 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,332 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,923 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,182 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,076 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,069 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,230 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,546 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,583 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,925 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,433 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,310 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,666 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,845 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,711 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,372 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,615 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,820 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,347 | 8.1 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,758 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nilda, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 3,244 Americans ever recorded as Nilda. The median Nilda alive today is 61 years old; half are between 49 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 8,491 people named Nilda (8,478 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,718 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 86 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 820 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 356 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Nilda born?
The states with the most babies named Nilda are New York, Texas and New Jersey, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,412 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Texas | 287 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 171 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 139 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 35 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nilda is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 5.2 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 Nilda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nilda
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 Nilda and names like it
- Compare Nilda and ColeenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sNilda peaked in 1957.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nilda since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Nilda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Nilda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nilda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.