Hilda is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hilda is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Hilda. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hilda is #3,042 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 64,183 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Hilda. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Hilda is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Hilda for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Hilda is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Hilda is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #84 Hilda has never been more popular than back in 1899.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hilda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 60 babies were named Hilda in the USA in 2022, ranking it #2,519 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2013, when it was only ranked #3,946 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 33 girls were named Hilda.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Hilda is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Hilda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hilda, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Lion
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hilda
Hilda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
I
L
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
I
L
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hilda sounds like this:
