Mathilde
About 1,793 American babies have been named Mathilde since 1880, most of them around 1894. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 690 Mathildes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mathilde
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,793
- Estimated living today
- 690
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 1894
- Best rank
- 504th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Mathildes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,793 babies given the name since 1880, about 690 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 the name comes from
From fr, de, nl, no, da Mathilde, equivalents of Matilda.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mathildes
- Queen Mathilde of Belgium (born 1973)Queen consort of Belgium
- Mathilde Kschessinska (1872–1971)Russian ballet dancer and princess
- Mathilde Bonaparte (1820–1904)Princess of France
- Mathilde Seigner (born 1968)French actress
- Duchess Mathilde Ludovika, Countess of Trani (1843–1925)Bavarian and Two Sicilian Royal
- Mathilde Johansson (born 1985)French tennis player
- Mathilde Gremaud (born 2000)Swiss freestyle skier
- Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912–1995)Danish princess
People named Mathilde with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mathilde is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mathilde is most concentrated in Louisiana (24.4×), New York (4.1×), California (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1894
The most popular girls’ names the year Mathilde peaked:
Mathilde elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Mathilde | 146,765 | 11th |
| Denmark girls | Mathilde | 15,336 | 1st |
| Norway girls | Mathilde | 6,006 | 22nd |
| Belgium girls | Mathilde | 2,012 | 16th |
| Switzerland girls | Mathilde | 1,600 | 80th |
| England and Wales girls | Mathilde | 611 | 851st |
| Italy girls | Mathilde | 381 | — |
| France boys | Mathilde | 105 | 3,988th |
| Poland girls | Mathilde | 26 birth registrations | 458th |
| Scotland girls | Mathilde | 10 | 668th |
| Ireland girls | Mathilde | 7 | 750th |
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.
Mathilde: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mathilde | 141 | 0.011% | 349th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mathilde | 1,440 | 0.331% | 12th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mathilde | 19 | 0.029% | 118th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mathilde is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.38% of children were given it – 55 of them.
Mathilde: rank by region
In 2025, Mathilde was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mathilde | 656 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Mathilde | 210 | 13 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mathilde appears in the lists for Province of Liège (157th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mathilde by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 58 | 215th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mathilde 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 | Mathilde | 3,369 | 10,147 |
| the Netherlands boys | Mathilde | — | 681 |
| Finland girls | Mathilde | 47 | 160 |
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
Mathilde 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.