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Gildo

Boys' name

Masculine form of Gilda

Gildo has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1919, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gildo, 1956

1 in 824,000

Gildo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gildo: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine form of Gilda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gildo means

Gildo is a masculine form of Gilda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gildo is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒil.do/ for Gildo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gildo → Gilda. The family’s meaning is “payment, tribute, compensation”, recorded in the naming reference for Gilda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gilda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 177 boys were recorded with the name Gildo between 1912 and 1956. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,905 in 1914.

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.

How common is Gildo?

Gildo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1956
1 in 824,000
5 of 4,122,003 births
Among boys only
1 in 423,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1956
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
571,432 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gildo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 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 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gildo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gildos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gildo was born before 1924 — so the typical Gildo is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1920s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Gildo 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 1919 (13)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,905
1914

Spellings of Gildo

Gildo is not the most common spelling — Milo is, with 45.1% against Gildo's 0.18%.

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 Gildo is used

Across 1910–2025, Gildo was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,597,058 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Gildo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gildo around the world

Where Gildo 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
    1911–1969
    #1,878
    in 1969
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #561
    in 1961

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gildo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,905
1914
Peak year
1919
13 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1956
All-time count
177
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gildo

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

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Sibling names for Gildo

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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