Hildegarde
Last seen for girls in 1961 at #3,608
- Peak · girls
- 1901 · 30 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,326since 1885
Hildegarde over time
Rank among girls' names. Hildegarde has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 |
| 1943 | #1,949 | 20 |
| 1942 | #1,917 | 20 |
| 1941 | #1,649 | 23 |
| 1940 | #1,635 | 23 |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 |
| 1938 | #1,382 | 29 |
| 1937 | #1,580 | 23 |
| 1936 | #1,230 | 34 |
| 1935 | #1,449 | 26 |
| 1934 | #1,518 | 24 |
| 1933 | #1,330 | 29 |
| 1932 | #1,176 | 37 |
| 1931 | #1,127 | 40 |
| 1930 | #1,072 | 47 |
| 1929 | #981 | 54 |
| 1928 | #1,115 | 46 |
| 1927 | #1,023 | 56 |
| 1926 | #1,148 | 44 |
| 1925 | #960 | 60 |
| 1924 | #1,151 | 46 |
| 1923 | #953 | 60 |
| 1922 | #932 | 63 |
| 1921 | #885 | 70 |
| 1920 | #908 | 64 |
| 1919 | #944 | 56 |
| 1918 | #815 | 77 |
| 1917 | #775 | 79 |
| 1916 | #654 | 108 |
| 1915 | #583 | 124 |
| 1914 | #676 | 74 |
| 1913 | #618 | 70 |
| 1912 | #678 | 54 |
| 1911 | #704 | 38 |
| 1910 | #679 | 39 |
| 1909 | #731 | 30 |
| 1908 | #649 | 35 |
| 1907 | #710 | 28 |
| 1906 | #622 | 33 |
| 1905 | #609 | 33 |
| 1904 | #586 | 33 |
| 1903 | #712 | 22 |
| 1902 | #773 | 20 |
| 1901 | #559 | 30 |
| 1900 | #639 | 30 |
| 1899 | #616 | 25 |
| 1898 | #581 | 31 |
| 1897 | #681 | 21 |
| 1896 | #728 | 19 |
| 1895 | #815 | 15 |
| 1894 | #950 | 11 |
| 1893 | #826 | 13 |
| 1892 | #861 | 12 |
| 1891 | #608 | 19 |
| 1890 | #642 | 17 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 |
| 1887 | #860 | 8 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #793 | 8 |
| 1884 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Hildegarde! It came in at #793, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1886, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Hildegarde is popular in 1911
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#195 · 1 in 1,418
- Ohio#306 · 1 in 3,356
- New York#357 · 1 in 5,311
Best ever in a state: #165 in Minnesota, 1910.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #195 | 5 | 1 in 1,418 |
| Ohio | #306 | 5 | 1 in 3,356 |
| New York | #357 | 7 | 1 in 5,311 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hildegarde
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1961
- Biggest jump: 191 spots in 1925 (#1,151 → #960)
- Biggest drop: 253 spots in 1892 (#608 → #861)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1901 at #559 (30 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 43 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1890–1923
- Highest: 1 in 7,934 girls born in 1915 were named Hildegarde (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,269 girls born in 1961 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #559 in 1901, was only 1 in 7,978 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.9% of all girls named Hildegarde (719) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | #793 (1885) | #871 |
| 1890s | 183 | #581 (1898) | #731 |
| 1900s | 294 | #559 (1901) | #659 |
| 1910s | 719 | #583 (1915) | #713 |
| 1920s | 563 | #885 (1921) | #1,006 |
| 1930s | 308 | #1,072 (1930) | #1,366 |
| 1940s | 149 | #1,635 (1940) | #2,733 |
| 1950s | 68 | #3,269 (1953) | #4,613 |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,608 (1961) | #4,999 |
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.
Hildegarde in 1911
Top girls' names in 1911
More about 1911
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418,309 girls got a published name in 1911; 1 in 11,008 of them was named Hildegarde, which outranked 75.5% of the 2,868 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #698Josefa39
- #698Robert39
- #698Verla39
- #704Hildegarde38
- #704Adelia38
- #704Cathrine38
- #704Garnett38
- #714Antonette37
- #714Jerry37
- #714Lilla37
Tied with 9 names at #704; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.