girls:
2.4k births since 1889
#3531 (38th percentile)
boys:
421 births since 1911
#4165 (9th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1889
#5083 (34th percentile)
The name Hildred is the #5,083 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,825 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 34.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,531 (38.2% percentile) for all time with 2,404 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #4,165 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 421 births since 1911.
Hildred first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for girls and 1911 for boys). Birth data for Hildred is available in 72 out of the 77 years between 1889 and 1965 (71 years for girls and 46 years for boys). 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.
The name Hildred has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.1% of all recorded births being female. In 1965, 100.0% of babies named Hildred were girls.
For girls, Hildred reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #481) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 157 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
For boys, Hildred reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #537) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hildred".
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Our model is 85.7% confident that Hildred is pronounced as HIHL-drehd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HIHL-druhd, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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