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Tilda

#6,805 in 2025Girls' name

Strength + battle, fight, through Matilda

Tilda has been given to 2,040 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,805 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Tilda, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tilda: meaning, origin, and history

Strength + battle, fight, through Matilda

Germanic languages

What Tilda means

Tilda belongs to the name family reached through Tilda → Matilda → *Mahtihildiz. Its meaning is “strength + battle, fight”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tilda is used in English, Finnish and Swedish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matilda and *Mahtihildiz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Tilda is pronounced /ˈtildɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,040 girls were recorded with the name Tilda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1924; its best national rank was #323 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,922 in 2020 to #6,805 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,955 in 2015 to #6,805 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 Tilda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,805
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tilda 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tilda was born before 1927 — so the typical Tilda is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
610
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (280).

Is Tilda 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
+1,585
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,117
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+150
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.6%
Peak was 1924 (35)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#323
1883

Spellings of Tilda

Tilda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 51.8% against Tilda's 0.07%.

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 Tilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Tilda was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 278,787 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 33,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 100,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Missouri1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Tilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tilda around the world

Where Tilda 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2011–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1954–2025
    #4,826
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2019
    #2,629
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Tilda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,117
Best rank ever
#323
1883
Peak year
1924
35 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,040
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Tilda

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

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Names with a curve like Tilda

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

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Sibling names for Tilda

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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