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Borghild

Girls' name

Possibly battle, through Borghildr

Borghild has been given to 361 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Borghild, 1930

1 in 247,000

Borghild over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Borghild: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly battle, through Borghildr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Borghild means

Borghild belongs to the name family reached through Borghild → Borghildr. Its meaning is “battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Borghild is used in Faroese and Norwegian.

Borghild comes through Old Norse Borghildr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Borghildr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 361 girls were recorded with the name Borghild between 1895 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,057 in 1906.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Borghild?

Borghild had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930
1 in 247,000
9 of 2,223,243 births
Among girls only
1 in 125,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
171,227 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Borghild sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1930 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 171,227 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Borghild. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Borghilds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Borghild was born before 1915 — so the typical Borghild is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (205).

Is Borghild rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (33)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,057
1906

Where Borghild is used

Across 1910–2025, Borghild was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 89,782 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 12,500
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in —
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Borghild has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Borghild around the world

Where Borghild ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2022
    #467
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Borghild by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,057
1906
Peak year
1915
33 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
361
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Borghild

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Borghild

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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