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Matylda

Girls' name

Form of Matilda

Matylda has been given to 156 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 2019, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Matylda, 2023

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Matylda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Matilda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Matylda means

Matylda is a form of Matilda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Matylda is used in Czech and Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈma.tɪl.da/ and /ma.ˈtɨl.da/ for Matylda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matilda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Matylda is pronounced [ˈmatɪlda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 156 girls were recorded with the name Matylda between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #5,307 in 1919.

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 Matylda?

Matylda 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 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Matylda 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Matylda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Matyldas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Matylda was born before 2014 — so the typical Matylda is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
146
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Matylda 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2019 (14)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,307
1919

Spellings of Matylda

Matylda is not the most common spelling — Matilda is, with 67.7% against Matylda's 0.28%.

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 Matylda is used

Across 1910–2025, Matylda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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

Matylda around the world

Where Matylda 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
    2001–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2022
    #625
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #361
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2007–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1988–2024
    #7,657
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1962–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Matylda 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
#5,307
1919
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
156
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Matylda

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

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Sibling names for Matylda

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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