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Mathilda

#4,422 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Matilda

Mathilda has been given to 7,527 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,422 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Mathilda, 2025

1 in 104,000

Mathilda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mathilda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Matilda

Germanic languages

What Mathilda means

Mathilda is a variant of Matilda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mathilda → Matilda → *Mahtihildiz. The family’s meaning is “strength + battle, fight”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements mahtiz and hildiz.

Origin, language, and formation

Mathilda is used in English and Swedish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matilda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,527 girls were recorded with the name Mathilda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 1918; its best national rank was #168 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,327 in 2020 to #4,422 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,200 in 2015 to #4,422 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 Mathilda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,422
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mathilda 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mathilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mathildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mathilda was born before 1914 — so the typical Mathilda is around 111 today.

Median birth year
1914
About 111 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,199
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1910s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (1,357).

Is Mathilda 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
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,222
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.8%
Peak was 1918 (180)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#168
1883

Spellings of Mathilda

Mathilda is not the most common spelling — Matilda is, with 74.8% against Mathilda's 15.1%.

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 Mathilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Mathilda was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 49,552 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 6,250
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 10,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 20,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 33,333
  7. 7New York1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 33,333

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

Mathilda around the world

Where Mathilda 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
    1996–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2015
    #566
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #695
    in 2011
  • France
    1901–2025
    #1,069
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #350
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Mathilda

People whose public names include Mathilda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mathilda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mathilda. Linked forms have their own page here.

MatildaMatildeMatyldaMathildeMechthildMechtylda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mathilda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,422
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 95
Best rank ever
#168
1883
Peak year
1918
180 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,527
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Mathilda

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

MatildaMatthewMattisonMathildeGriseldaMatildeMatyldaMattilynImeldaMatilynMatteaMatayaMattisynGoldaEsmeraldaMattilynnCriseldaGriceldaEsmereldaMatisseZeldaMattieEldaMatea

Names with a curve like Mathilda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mathilda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NelleMaymeHettieHuldaAugustaBessMyrtieMetaBellPearleMittieLida

Sibling names for Mathilda

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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