Mathilda

Where Mathilda comes from

The dictionaries list Mathilda as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Matilda — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #177 among girls — 72 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #167
    100 babies named Mathilda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,064.
  4. 1965
    Mathilda May born
    French actress
  5. 1994
    Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne born
    British rower
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Matilda.
Namesakes
  • Mathilda May · French actress, born 1965
  • Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne · British rower, born 1994
  • Mathilda Wrede · Finnish christian missionary, 1864–1928
  • Mathilda Rotkirch · Finnish artist and noble, 1813–1842
  • Mathilda Malling · Swedish writer, 1864–1942

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.