Matilde
The girl's name Matilde has been in the national records since 1883, with 3,438 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,878th. About 2,100 Matildes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,438
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 924th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,878th
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 3,220 / 218
How old the living Matildes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,438 babies given the name since 1883, about 2,100 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 590 of them are children and 410 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 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 Matildes
- Matilde Camus (1919–2012)Spanish poet
- Matilde Serao (1856–1927)Italian journalist and writer, editor
- Matilde Hidalgo (1889–1974)Ecuadorian physician and suffragist
- Matilde Huici (1890–1965)lawyer and Spanish teacher
- Matilde Asensi (born 1962)Spanish writer
- Matilde Ortiz (born 1990)Spanish water polo player
- Matilde Ucelay (1912–2008)Spanish architect
- Matilde Bajer (1840–1934)Danish women's rights activist and pacifist
People named Matilde with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Matilde is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Matilde is most concentrated in Texas (8.7×), New Mexico (5.0×), California (2.2×), New York (0.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular girls’ names the year Matilde peaked:
Matilde elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Matilde | 60,824 | — |
| Portugal girls | Matilde | 9,718 name registrations | 3rd |
| France girls | Matilde | 1,705 | 659th |
| Norway girls | Matilde | 1,694 | 81st |
| Switzerland girls | Matilde | 1,301 | 91st |
| England and Wales girls | Matilde | 558 | 864th |
| Belgium girls | Matilde | 218 | 456th |
| Poland girls | Matilde | 32 birth registrations | 415th |
| Ireland girls | Matilde | 14 | 734th |
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.
Matilde: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Matilde | 374 | 0.030% | 200th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Matilde | 638 | 0.147% | 37th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Matilde | 283 | 0.434% | 11th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Matilde | 6 | 0.161% | 9th |
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, Matilde is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.44% of children were given it – 273 of them.
Matilde: rank by region
In 2025, Matilde was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Matilde | 531 | 9 |
| Brussels | Matilde | 120 | 9 |
In 2024, Matilde was among the 10 most common names in 17 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piemonte | Matilde | 5 | 238 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Matilde | 4 | 5 |
| Lombardia | Matilde | 4 | 614 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Matilde | 4 | 34 |
| Veneto | Matilde | 5 | 271 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Matilde | 7 | 53 |
| Liguria | Matilde | 3 | 80 |
| Emilia-Romagna | Matilde | 4 | 257 |
| Toscana | Matilde | 5 | 214 |
| Umbria | Matilde | 5 | 46 |
| Marche | Matilde | 5 | 86 |
| Lazio | Matilde | 7 | 333 |
| Abruzzo | Matilde | 8 | 53 |
| Molise | Matilde | 4 | 15 |
| Basilicata | Matilde | 9 | 19 |
| Calabria | Matilde | 7 | 97 |
| Sicilia | Matilde | 9 | 249 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Matilde appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (4th), Nord-est (5th), Centro (5th) and Isole (8th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Matilde appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (120th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Matilde by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 438th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Matilde 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Matilde | 53 | 132 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Where Matilde lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 28,108 women called Matilde were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granada | Matilde | 1,235 | 2.568 | 85 |
| Badajoz | Matilde | 744 | 2.208 | 106 |
| Albacete | Matilde | 408 | 2.096 | 106 |
| Córdoba | Matilde | 768 | 1.943 | 105 |
| Jaén | Matilde | 567 | 1.816 | 114 |
| Sevilla | Matilde | 1,780 | 1.756 | 113 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Matilde against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.