girls:
1.9k births since 1888
#3891 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1888
#5851 (24th percentile)
The name Hildegard is the #5,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,913 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,891 (31.9% percentile) for all time with 1,913 births since 1888.
Hildegard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (first recorded for girls in 1888). Birth data for Hildegard is available in 88 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Hildegard reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 13.4% percentile (ranked #484) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 108 births per million (ranked 8.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hildegard ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hildegard".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Hildegard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Hildegard is pronounced as HIHL-duh-gahrd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HIHL-duh-GAHRD, at 41.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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