Hulda
Hulda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 171st, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1895167 births
- Best rank
- #171in 1885
- Since 1880
- 5,407people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,407 girls have been named Hulda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1895, with 167 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 167 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1904, and the 1890s alone account for 25%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hulda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 899 | |
| 1890s | 1,374 | |
| 1900s | 903 | |
| 1910s | 1,060 | |
| 1920s | 709 | |
| 1930s | 240 | |
| 1940s | 130 | |
| 1950s | 69 | |
| 1960s | 11 | |
| 1970s | 7 | |
| 1980s | 5 |
In 1895, its biggest year
Hulda was the 207th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1895 were Mary, Anna, Helen, Margaret and Elizabeth. See all of 1895.
Names that rose and fell with Hulda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Besspeak 1889
- Metapeak 1892
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Mathildapeak 1918
- Doniepeak 1895
- Mettiepeak 1918
- Mathildepeak 1894
- Nellepeak 1917
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.