Matilda

What Matilda means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Matilda yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Matilda?

US: Rising: up from #534 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #27 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 210 girls got the name (#100 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,918 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 175 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 381 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (2.48 per 1,000 girls), MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Matilda is #364 in the US and #19 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Matilda were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Matylda0 US · 17 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Mathilda

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Matilda

Girls

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Alina#130Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

For a brother

• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Bruno#740“brown”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Matilda’s. Rank is US 2025.