Hilda

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hilda: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hilda: Recorded since 1945, it reached #160 in 1970, and it stood at #471 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#160highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3824
2001	#3998
2003	#4373
2005	#2247
2006	#5061
2007	#4294
2009	#3031
2010	#5707
2011	#4764
2012	#4838
2013	#4050
2014	#3514
2015	#3615
2016	#3609
2017	#2341
2018	#3985
2019	#4001
2020	#2615
2021	#2341
2022	#1849
2023	#2927
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 46 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2019: #474 among girls in Norway, #4001 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #214 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1964–1986
Highest recorded position: #160 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1970 (recorded 1964–1986).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #471 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Hilda appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 326 births with the name.

Hilda across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Hilda's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#214 (1945)	#207 (1949)	#471 (2025)	46 of 81	326 (1945–2025)	19 (1949)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1849 (2022)	#3318 (2024)	23 of 29	140 (1996–2024)	15 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#189 (1964)	#160 (1970)	#521 (1986)	22 of 23	336 (1964–1986)	32 (1970)

Hilda by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hilda in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	74	5 of 10	15
1950s	84	10 of 10	8
1960s	48	8 of 10	6
1970s	25	5 of 10	5
1980s	12	2 of 10	6
1990s	16	3 of 10	5
2000s	17	3 of 10	6
2010s	45	9 of 10	5
2020s	5	1 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Hilda appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #160 in Republic of Ireland in 1970.

Hilda's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#471	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#474	5	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#480	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#518	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#521	5	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#557	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#575	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#467	7	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#584	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#523	6	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#517	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#601	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#562	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#576	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#616	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#487	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#633	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#605	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#503	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#496	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#533	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#497	5	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#392	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#508	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#516	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#414	7	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#406	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#365	7	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#404	6	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#359	7	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#425	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#324	8	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#377	6	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#323	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#257	12	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#272	11	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#277	10	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#241	13	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#207	19	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#303	8	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#227	16	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#253	13	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#214	18	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#521	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	10	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	15	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#302	11	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#240	17	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#229	19	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#243	15	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#233	18	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#193	28	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#248	14	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	25	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#160	32	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#186	24	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#193	20	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#192	17	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#214	12	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	19	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#189	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 68 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #160, first reached in 1970.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1970.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Hilary · #106, 54y
Hild · #229, 29y
Hilde · #2, 76y
Hildegunn · #101, 54y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Silvia · #169, 66y
Mohamad · #146, 70y
Abdirahman · #188, 65y
Ken · #126, 66y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Oddgeir · #160, 48y
Rannveig · #160, 58y
Beathe · #159, 47y
Maud · #161, 59y

Hilda was ranked #160 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1970. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hilda and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hilda without appearing here.

Hilda moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4001 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Hilda

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3985 and #1436.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1743.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1849 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #2346.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1785.

Moved the opposite way to Hilda

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 while Ella went from #137 to #4.

Moved the same way as Hilda

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Hilda went from #214 to #471 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #160 in Republic of Ireland in 1970. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hilda

Hilda at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hilda across 3 official records

Hilda by decade in Norway · Girls

Hilda appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Hilda and the names beside it

Hilda moved ahead of

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Hilda at a glance

Hilda across 3 official records

Hilda by decade in Norway · Girls

Hilda appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Hilda

Hilda and the names beside it

Hilda moved ahead of

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