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Mathilde

#5,844 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Matilda

Mathilde has been given to 1,793 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,844 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1894, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Mathilde, 2025

1 in 158,000

Mathilde over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mathilde: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Matilda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mathilde means

Mathilde is a English equivalent of Matilda.

Origin, language, and formation

Mathilde is used in Danish, French, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matilda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Mathilde is pronounced /ma.tild/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,793 girls were recorded with the name Mathilde between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1894; its best national rank was #431 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,529 in 2020 to #5,844 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,069 in 2015 to #5,844 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 Mathilde?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,844
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mathilde 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mathilde. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mathildes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mathilde was born before 1921 — so the typical Mathilde is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1890s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
684
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Choose a decade

1890s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Mathilde 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
+1,983
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+685
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−775
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.6%
Peak was 1894 (32)
Years since peak
131
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#431
1887

Spellings of Mathilde

Mathilde is not the most common spelling — Matilda is, with 74.8% against Mathilde's 3.6%.

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 Mathilde is used

Across 1910–2025, Mathilde was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 249,710 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Mathilde has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mathilde around the world

Where Mathilde 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2009
    #668
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2008–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • France
    1900–2025
    #121
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #33
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #317
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Mathilde by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,844
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 685
Best rank ever
#431
1887
Peak year
1894
32 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,793
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Mathilde

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

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Sibling names for Mathilde

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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