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Clotilde

Girls' name

Famous + battle, fight, through *Hlūdahildiz

Clotilde has been given to 1,018 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1924, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Clotilde, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clotilde: meaning, origin, and history

Famous + battle, fight, through *Hlūdahildiz

French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Germanic languages

What Clotilde means

Clotilde belongs to the name family reached through Clotilde → *Hlūdahildiz. Its meaning is “famous + battle, fight”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Clotilde, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Clotilde (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Clotilde is used in English, Cebuano, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Germanic languages.

Clotilde comes through fr,it,pt,es Clotilde and Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clotilda and *Hlūdahildiz.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,018 girls were recorded with the name Clotilde between 1885 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1924; its best national rank was #613 in 1885.

How common is Clotilde?

Clotilde had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clotilde 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clotilde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clotildes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clotilde was born before 1925 — so the typical Clotilde is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.98%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (234).

Is Clotilde 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 1924 (36)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#613
1885

Where Clotilde is used

Across 1910–2025, Clotilde was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 259,257 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Clotilde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clotilde around the world

Where Clotilde 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.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • France
    1900–2025
    #700
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #409
    in 1957

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clotilde 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
#613
1885
Peak year
1924
36 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,018
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clotilde

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

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Sibling names for Clotilde

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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