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Hilde

#8,552 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Hilda

Hilde has been given to 392 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #8,552 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Hilde, 2025

1 in 276,000

Hilde over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hilde: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Hilda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hilde means

Hilde is a variant of Hilda.

Origin, language, and formation

Hilde is used in Dutch, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Hilde is pronounced /ˈɦɪl.də/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 392 girls were recorded with the name Hilde between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,019 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,165 in 2020 to #8,552 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,405 in 2015 to #8,552 in 2025.

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 Hilde?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,552
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hilde 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 2025 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hilde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hildes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hilde was born before 1967 — so the typical Hilde is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
297
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Choose a decade

2020s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Hilde 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
−819
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+613
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,853
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.2%
Peak was 2021 (19)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,019
1929

Spellings of Hilde

Hilde is not the most common spelling — Hilda is, with 41.4% against Hilde's 0.20%.

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 Hilde is used

Across 1910–2025, Hilde was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New 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. Hilde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hilde around the world

Where Hilde 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
    2020–2020
    #3,899
    in 2020
  • France
    1900–2002
    #4,753
    in 2002
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1956–1976
    #645
    in 1976

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

Hilde by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,552
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 613
Best rank ever
#3,019
1929
Peak year
2021
19 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
392
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Hilde

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

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Sibling names for Hilde

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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