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Ilda

Girls' name

Battle, fight

Ilda has been given to 1,522 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1921, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Ilda, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ilda: meaning, origin, and history

Battle, fight

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ilda means

Ilda means “battle, fight”, associated with hildiz.

Origin, language, and formation

Ilda is used in Albanian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hilda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ilda is pronounced /ˈil.da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,522 girls were recorded with the name Ilda between 1894 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1921; its best national rank was #859 in 1905.

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 Ilda?

Ilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ilda 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ilda was born before 1960 — so the typical Ilda is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
871
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (216).

Is Ilda 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (34)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#859
1905

Spellings of Ilda

Ilda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 39.1% against Ilda's 0.04%.

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 Ilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Ilda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 139,538 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Ilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ilda around the world

Where Ilda 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
    #4,662
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1958–1986
    #667
    in 1986

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.

Ilda 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
#859
1905
Peak year
1921
34 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ilda

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

TildaEldaMeldaGoldaValdaAldaMildaNildaEmeldaAwildaReldaImeldaZeldaYaldaHuldaNeldaRildaWaldaVeldaJildaMafaldaSheldaTheldaGilda

Sibling names for Ilda

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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