Hilde

Peak · girls
1929 · 10 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
392
since 1916

Hilde over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Hilde has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,921, 1929girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#7,59414
2023#8,48612
2022#7,28115
2021#6,17419
2020#8,95311
2019#10,4739
2018#13,7936
2017#10,6899
2016#10,8599
2015#10,14810
2014#10,9559
2013#13,1507
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2011#16,7645
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2008#17,5045
2007#17,6365
2006#15,1526
2005#14,5026
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1979#10,2105
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1976#9,2845
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1971#7,3886
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1969#4,72310
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1967#6,0426
1966#5,8096
1965#6,5395
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1963#4,8968
1962#5,8606
1961#4,23910
1960#5,6966
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1958#4,8907
1957#4,5368
1956#4,1619
1955#4,0699
1954#3,9679
1953#4,5957
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1951#4,8336
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1945#4,5565
1944#3,6877
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1940#3,8636
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1935#4,2045
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1932#3,9016
1931#3,8486
1930#3,0559
1929#2,92110
1928#3,1649
1927#4,8055
1926#4,3066
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1922#4,4456
1921#5,0995
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1919#4,8145
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1916#4,4175
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Hilde! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Hilde is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Hilde in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Hilde
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
  • 591 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #8,362)
  • 1,786 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1929 at #2,921 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1933, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 86,361
  • Highest: 1 in 86,361 girls born in 2021 were named Hilde (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,921 in 1929, was only 1 in 111,656 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 21.2% of all girls named Hilde (83) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#4,417 (1916)#4,616
1920s41#2,921 (1929)#4,123
1930s26#3,055 (1930)#3,752
1940s18#3,687 (1944)#4,035
1950s55#3,967 (1954)#4,436
1960s57#4,239 (1961)#5,476
1970s16#7,388 (1971)#8,961
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s22#14,502 (2005)#16,199
2010s64#10,148 (2015)#12,104
2020s83#6,174 (2021)#7,808

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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