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Clothilde

Girls' name

Famous + battle, through Clotilde

Clothilde has been given to 241 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1925, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Clothilde, 1946

1 in 639,000

Clothilde 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clothilde: meaning, origin, and history

Famous + battle, through Clotilde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clothilde means

Clothilde belongs to the name family reached through Clothilde → Clotilde. Its meaning is “famous + battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Clothilde is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clotilde.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Clothilde is pronounced /klɔ.tild/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 241 girls were recorded with the name Clothilde between 1888 and 1946. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1925; its best national rank was #1,168 in 1888.

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 Clothilde?

Clothilde had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1946
1 in 639,000
5 of 3,195,175 births
Among girls only
1 in 314,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1946
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
442,946 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clothilde 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 1946 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 442,946 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clothilde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clothildes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clothilde was born before 1918 — so the typical Clothilde is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Clothilde 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 1925 (16)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,168
1888

Spellings of Clothilde

Clothilde is not the most common spelling — Clotilde is, with 80.9% against Clothilde's 19.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Clothilde is used

Across 1910–2025, Clothilde was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 43,341 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000

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. Clothilde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clothilde around the world

Where Clothilde 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.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,382
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Clothilde 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
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Best rank ever
#1,168
1888
Peak year
1925
16 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1946
All-time count
241
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clothilde

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

ClotildeClodaghClorissaClotildaClorineCleotildeCloreneClotealClotileCloteeClorindaCloriaIsoldeClotineClorisClothildaClotielMathildeCloyceCloeeClorisaClorettaCloisClovia

Sibling names for Clothilde

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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