How rare is the name Matilda?

13,836 people in the United States have the first name Matilda, about 1 in 21,829. It ranks #1,991 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MATILDA

#1,991

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,836
About
1 in 21,829
This common or more
78%
Who bears it

Of the 13,836 people named Matilda, 58.2% reported their origin as White, 19.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 14% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Matilda peaked in 2025, when 838 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
838
In 2025*
838
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 37,280 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Matilda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #182. The largest share of babies named Matilda, 32.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1822,538
1890s#1953,249
1900s#2602,892
1910s#4105,293
1920s#5475,021
1930s#8372,033
1940s#1,2261,284
1950s#1,5431,179
1960s#1,824983
1970s#2,584620
1980s#4,261359
1990s#4,339486
2000s#2,2841,712
2010s#1,1105,241
2020s#8704,390
Before 190116.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2732.5%
Silent Generation 1928–459.4%
Baby boom 1946–646.2%
Generation X 1965–802.8%
Millennials 1981–961.5%
Generation Z 1997–128.3%
2013 and later22.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Matilda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Matilda has been most common in Pennsylvania (1.9×), New York (1.5×), and New Jersey (1.5×), and least common in Maine (0.33×).

23,728 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Matilda

#1,988 Addyson · 13,875#1,990 Misael · 13,844#1,992 Braylon · 13,830#1,993 Gunnar · 13,805

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Matilda, most common first.

#2,494 Matilde · 9,811#9,210 Mathilda · 1,526#9,970 Mathilde · 1,360

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