girls:
3.2k births since 1883
#3088 (46th percentile)
boys:
218 births since 1923
#4368 (5th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1883
#4706 (39th percentile)
The name Matilde is the #4,706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,374 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 39.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,088 (46.0% percentile) for all time with 3,156 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,368 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 218 births since 1923.
Matilde first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Matilde is available in 135 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 28 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 Matilde has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Matilde reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #543) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 83 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Matilde ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 33.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Matilde reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #511) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Matilde".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Matilde. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.8% confident that Matilde is pronounced as muh-TIHL-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-TIHLD, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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