Mathilda

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Mathilda: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #256 in 2014, and it stood at #360 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
54times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#256highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#820
1998	#869
1999	#663
2000	#782
2001	#918
2002	#689
2003	#781
2004	#638
2005	#657
2006	#678
2007	#544
2008	#573
2009	#654
2010	#821
2011	#714
2012	#844
2013	#854
2014	#794
2015	#745
2016	#938
2017	#814
2018	#1111
2019	#1189
2020	#1238
2021	#1259
2022	#1282
2023	#1255
2024	#1491

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #367 among girls in Norway, #1255 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2025
Highest recorded position: #256 among girls in Norway, in 2014 (recorded 1999–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #360 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Mathilda appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,117 births with the name.

Mathilda across 2 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.

Mathilda'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
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#544 (2007)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	1,117 (1996–2024)	68 (2007)
Norway · Girls	#571 (1999)	#256 (2014)	#360 (2025)	24 of 27	262 (1999–2025)	21 (2014)

Mathilda by decade in England and Wales · 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 Mathilda in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	105	4 of 10	26
2000sbusiest	455	10 of 10	46
2010s	433	10 of 10	43
2020s	124	5 of 10	25

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 46 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mathilda 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #256 in Norway in 2014.

Mathilda'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	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1259	26	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1238	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1189	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1111	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#938	39	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#745	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#794	49	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#854	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#844	45	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#714	54	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#654	56	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#573	66	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#544	68	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#678	46	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#657	47	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#638	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#781	34	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#689	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#918	24	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#782	29	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#360	9	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#367	9	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#268	15	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#331	10	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#403	7	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#454	6	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#364	11	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#386	10	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#391	10	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#438	8	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#256	21	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#307	16	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#281	18	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#309	16	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#281	18	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#278	19	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#318	15	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#485	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#452	8	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#560	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#489	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#426	8	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#573	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#571	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	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 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #256, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 15 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.

Mathias · #2, 69y
Mathieu · #272, 21y
Mathilde · #20, 53y
Mathis · #379, 34y

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.

Alessandro · #256, 31y
Malaika · #256, 29y
Emilee · #255, 28y
Karolis · #257, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Malaika · #256, 29y
Ajay · #257, 29y
Emilee · #255, 28y
Hauk · #257, 28y

Mathilda was ranked #256 in Norway · Girls in 2014. 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.

Mathilda 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 Mathilda without appearing here.

Mathilda moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1255 and #2689.
Belinda Compare
In 2001 they stood at #918 and #898 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #689 and #1530.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1255 and #2063.
Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1112 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #820 and #1450.

Moved ahead of Mathilda

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #714 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #844 and #284.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1255 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #952.
Molly Compare
In 2014 they stood at #256 and #265 in Norway · Girls; by 2015 that had become #438 and #178.
Mina Compare
In 2015 they stood at #745 and #787 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #938 and #681.

Moved the opposite way to Mathilda

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #820 to #1491 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #820 to #1491 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #663 to #1491 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #663 to #1491 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.

Moved the same way as Mathilda

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #869 to #1255 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.
Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #782 to #1491 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mathilda went from #689 to #1491 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #256 in Norway in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mathilda

Mathilda at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mathilda across 2 official records

Mathilda by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mathilda appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mathilda

Mathilda and the names beside it

Mathilda moved ahead of

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Mathilda at a glance

Mathilda across 2 official records

Mathilda by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mathilda appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mathilda

Mathilda and the names beside it

Mathilda moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mathilda

Moved the opposite way to Mathilda

Moved the same way as Mathilda