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Hilda vs Hildreth

American parents have registered 81,200 Hildas since 1880, against 886 Hildreths. Hilda is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hilda against Hildreth, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hilda Hildreth

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Hilda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1919, when Hilda had 1,917 and Hildreth had 48.

Side by side

  Hilda Hildreth
Total US births 81,200886
Most in one year 2,13748
Babies in 2025 55under 5
Estimated living today 22,00080
Median age today 6783
Peak year 19211918
Best rank 123rd girls1,184th girls
Rank in 2025 2,998thunranked
First recorded 18801892
Girls / boys 81,022 / 178789 / 97

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hildreths alive today are over 83; half the Hildas are over 67. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hilda and Hildreth.