Mathilde

Where Mathilde comes from

From French, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish Mathilde, equivalents of Matilda.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mathilde
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1820
    Mathilde Bonaparte born
    Princess of France
  2. 1872
    Mathilde Kschessinska born
    Russian ballet dancer and princess
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1887
    Peak, #424
    27 babies named Mathilde — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #935.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Mathilde Kschessinska · Russian ballet dancer and princess, 1872–1971
  • Mathilde Bonaparte · Princess of France, 1820–1904
  • Mathilde Seigner · French actress, born 1968
  • Mathilde Johansson · French tennis player, born 1985
  • Mathilde Gremaud · Swiss freestyle skier, born 2000

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.