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The first name 
Mathilde

Mathilde is a first name for girls.

Mathilde – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Mathilde in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Mathilde in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Mathilde by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Mathilde ranks at #4,964. That means there are 4,963 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mathilde.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Mathilde

Mathilde -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Mathilde in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 216 women and girls named Mathilde, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 216 women and girls named Mathilde live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Mathilde. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Mathilde lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Mathilde and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Mathilde relative to its female population is Louisiana. And even there, only one in 26,920 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Mathilde.

Mathilde has 8 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With eight letters, the name Mathilde is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Mathilde

If your name is Mathilde 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...

This is how you spell the name Mathilde

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mathilde, you can simply say:

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This is how the name Mathilde is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Mathilde in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

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Mathilde

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Mathilde

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Mathilde is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

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Have you ever waved the name Mathilde

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.

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A
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Beeping like crazy...

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. Mathilde sounds like this: