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Nilda

Girls' name

Battle

Nilda has been given to 3,244 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1957, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Nilda, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nilda: meaning, origin, and history

Battle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nilda means

Nilda means “battle”, associated with hild.

Origin, language, and formation

Nilda is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Nilda is pronounced /ˈnilda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,244 girls were recorded with the name Nilda between 1911 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 118 in 1957; its best national rank was #949 in 1957.

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 Nilda?

Nilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nilda 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nilda was born before 1962 — so the typical Nilda is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,683
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (834).

Is Nilda 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 1957 (118)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#949
1957

Spellings of Nilda

Nilda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 56.1% against Nilda's 0.13%.

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 Nilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Nilda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 38,022 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Nilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nilda around the world

Where Nilda 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
    1950–2025
    #7,249
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Nilda

People whose public names include Nilda, 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.

Nilda 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
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Best rank ever
#949
1957
Peak year
1957
118 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
3,244
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nilda

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

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Names with a curve like Nilda

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

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Sibling names for Nilda

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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