Tilda
Tilda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 323rd, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192435 births
- Best rank
- #323in 1883
- Since 1880
- 2,023people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,023 girls have been named Tilda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tilda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 179 | |
| 1890s | 190 | |
| 1900s | 195 | |
| 1910s | 229 | |
| 1920s | 280 | |
| 1930s | 207 | |
| 1940s | 150 | |
| 1950s | 176 | |
| 1960s | 143 | |
| 1970s | 38 | |
| 2000s | 24 | |
| 2010s | 126 | |
| 2020s | 86 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Tilda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Tilda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sophroniapeak 1900
- Lillapeak 1918
- Salliepeak 1916
- Ettapeak 1920
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Mittiepeak 1920
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.