Gilda
Gilda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 381st, in 1927.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1947346 births
- Best rank
- #381in 1927
- Since 1898
- 10,077people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,077 girls have been named Gilda in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 346 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 346 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gilda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 94 | |
| 1910s | 899 | |
| 1920s | 2,160 | |
| 1930s | 1,224 | |
| 1940s | 1,520 | |
| 1950s | 2,079 | |
| 1960s | 912 | |
| 1970s | 462 | |
| 1980s | 265 | |
| 1990s | 262 | |
| 2000s | 92 | |
| 2010s | 62 | |
| 2020s | 40 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Gilda was the 441st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Gilda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorrainepeak 1928
- Jeannepeak 1947
- Ritapeak 1949
- Hortensiapeak 1928
- Doreathapeak 1928
- Jesusitapeak 1930
- Bernitapeak 1954
- Jeanpeak 1927
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.