girls:
856 births since 1880
#4860 (15th percentile)
overall:
856 births since 1880
#6883 (11th percentile)
The name Huldah is the #6,883 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 856 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,860 (14.9% percentile) for all time with 856 births since 1880.
Huldah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Huldah is available in 62 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Huldah reached its peak popularity in 1898, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #317) with 98 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 104 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Huldah ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Huldah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Huldah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Huldah is pronounced as HUHL-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HOOL-duh, at 50.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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