Clotilda

Where Clotilda comes from

A Latinate form of the French Clotilde, of Germanic origin (Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz).
— Wiktionary's entry for Clotilda
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #955
    10 babies named Clotilda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,592.
  4. 1932
    Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk born
    Canadian nurse
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Namesakes
  • Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk · Canadian nurse, 1932–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.