Hulda

girls:

5.4k births since 1880

#2278 (60th percentile)

overall:

5.4k births since 1880

#3714 (52nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Hulda is the #3,714 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,407 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,278 (60.1% percentile) for all time with 5,407 births since 1880.

Hulda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Hulda is available in 81 out of the 101 years between 1880 and 1980. 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, Hulda reached its peak popularity in 1890, achieving the 41.2% percentile (ranked #174) with 729 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 796 births per million (ranked 37.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hulda".

1880 1980 18801980

Key Statistics

Total Births
5,407
Peak Births
167
Peak Year
1890
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
41.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#174
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Hulda

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hulda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 55.6% confident that Hulda is pronounced as HOOL-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HUHL-duh, at 44.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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55.6%
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44.4%
HOOL-duh (2 syllables)
55.6% confidence
HH UH1 L D AH0
HUHL-duh (2 syllables)
44.4% confidence
HH AH1 L D AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH UH1 L D AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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