Hildred
Hildred is a girl's name that peaked in 1920, when it was the 774th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 330 Hildreds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hildred boys named Hildred
Girls and boys called Hildred
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,404 girls and 421 boys in all, and in 1942 the split was 26 to 7.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 42 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,825
- Estimated living today
- 330
- Median age today
- 82
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 774th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1889
- Girls / boys
- 2,404 / 421
How old the living Hildreds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,825 babies given the name since 1889, about 330 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 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.
Where Hildred is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hildred is most concentrated in Maine (8.7×), West Virginia (7.8×), North Carolina (7.0×), Missouri (6.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Hildred peaked:
Related names
Hildred 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.