Huldah

Girls' name

Weasel

Huldah has been given to 856 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1920, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Huldah, 2023

1 in 552,000

Huldah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Huldah: meaning, origin, and history

Weasel

Hebrew

What Huldah means

Huldah means “weasel”, associated with חולדה.

Origin, language, and formation

Huldah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Huldah comes through Hebrew חולדה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 856 girls were recorded with the name Huldah between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1920; its best national rank was #545 in 1882.

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 Huldah?

Huldah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 267,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Huldah 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Huldah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Huldahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Huldah was born before 1909 — so the typical Huldah is around 116 today.

Median birth year: 1909; About 116 years old
Biggest decade: 1890s; 20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 0.70%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1890s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Huldah 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (35)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 51.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #545; 1882

Spellings of Huldah

Huldah is not the most common spelling — Hilda is, with 85.2% against Huldah's 0.90%.

Hilda85.2%81,022
Hulda5.7%5,407
Bulah3.2%3,027
Huda2.1%2,021
Eulah2.0%1,871
Huldah0.90%856
Judah0.90%853

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 Huldah is used

Across 1910–2025, Huldah was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,246,291 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 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. Huldah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Huldah around the world

Where Huldah 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
2025–2025
#5,927
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Huldah 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: #545; 1882
Peak year: 1920; 35 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 856
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Huldah

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

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Sibling names for Huldah

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

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Syble Adella Mittie

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Orin Otha Casimir Edd Noble

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