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Zilda

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Zilda has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 1916, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Zilda, 1925

1 in 467,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zilda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zilda means

Zilda is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Zilda is used in Portuguese (Brazilian).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈziw.dɐ/ and /ˈziɫ.dɐ/ for Zilda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 girls were recorded with the name Zilda between 1897 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,797 in 1897.

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.

How common is Zilda?

Zilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 467,000
5 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
323,456 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zilda 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 1925 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 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zilda was born before 1916 — so the typical Zilda is around 109 today.

Median birth year
1916
About 109 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
53.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Zilda 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 1916 (8)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,797
1897

Spellings of Zilda

Zilda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 61.2% against Zilda's <0.01%.

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.

Zilda around the world

Where Zilda 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
    1900–1944
    #1,032
    in 1944

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

Zilda 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
#1,797
1897
Peak year
1916
8 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zilda

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

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Sibling names for Zilda

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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