girls:
35.6k births since 1880
#728 (87th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1885
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
35.7k births since 1880
#1325 (83rd percentile)
The name Matilda is the #1,325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,660 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #728 (87.3% percentile) for all time with 35,650 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1885.
Matilda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1885 for boys).
The name Matilda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Matilda reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 63.3% percentile (ranked #105) with 1,731 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 2,152 births per million (ranked 54.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Matilda ranks #400 for girls (57.8% percentile) with 404 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Matilda reached its peak popularity in 1885, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #211) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Matilda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Matilda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Matilda is pronounced as muh-TIHL-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-TEEL-duh, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 T IH1 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.
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