Hildegard
Hildegard is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 617th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191581 births
- Best rank
- #617in 1906
- Since 1888
- 1,930people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,930 girls have been named Hildegard in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 81 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hildegard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 130 | |
| 1900s | 219 | |
| 1910s | 483 | |
| 1920s | 436 | |
| 1930s | 276 | |
| 1940s | 108 | |
| 1950s | 93 | |
| 1960s | 42 | |
| 1970s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 79 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Hildegard was the 740th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Hildegard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hildredpeak 1920
- Hildegardepeak 1915
- Myrlpeak 1916
- Gladyspeak 1920
- Flonniepeak 1914
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Oziepeak 1922
- Buelahpeak 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.