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Matilda
Pronounced /məˈtɪldə/
Rank in 2024
#410
Born in 2024
769
Peak year
2024 · #410
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 769 girls were named Matilda, about 1 in every 2,098.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 36,428 girls have been named Matilda since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Matilda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 12,115 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Silent: 3,520 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,295 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,061 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 559 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,089 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,659 babies, 0.38 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Matilda, from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German Mahthilt, Mehthilt, from Proto-West Germanic *Mahtihild, from Proto-Germanic *Mahtihildiz; compare German Mechthild, Old English Mæþhild (“Matilda”).
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /məˈtɪldə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Matilda, CC BY-SA 4.0.