girls:
293 births since 1917
#5423 (5th percentile)
overall:
293 births since 1917
#7446 (4th percentile)
The name Jilda is the #7,446 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 293 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,423 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 293 births since 1917.
Jilda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (first recorded for girls in 1917). Birth data for Jilda is available in 39 out of the 80 years between 1917 and 1996. 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, Jilda reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #660) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jilda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jilda is pronounced as JIHL-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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