Hilde
Hilde is a girl's name that peaked in 2021, when it was the 6,174th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 290 Hildes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hilde
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 392
- Estimated living today
- 290
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 6,174th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Hildes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 392 babies given the name since 1916, about 290 are alive — 75 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Hildes
- Hilde Holger (1905–2001)Austrian British dancer and choreographer
- Hilde Domin (1909–2006)German writer
- Hilde Gerg (born 1975)German alpine skier
- Hilde Schrader (1910–1966)swimmer
- Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908–1981)German-Danish tennis player
- Hilde Mangold (1898–1924)German biologist
- Hilde Zimmermann (1920–2002)Austrian resistance member
- Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen (born 1964)cross-country skier from Norway
People named Hilde with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hilde is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular girls’ names the year Hilde peaked:
Hilde elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Hilde | 18,596 | 2nd |
| France girls | Hilde | 515 | 317th |
| England and Wales girls | Hilde | 5 | 3,899th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hilde by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 408th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hilde among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Hilde | 3,797 | 5,640 |
| Finland girls | Hilde | 91 | 135 |
| the Netherlands boys | Hilde | — | 38 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Hilde against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.