Hildegard
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · girls
- 1906 · 34 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,945since 1888
Hildegard over time
Rank among girls' names. Hildegard has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 |
| 1940 | #2,029 | 16 |
| 1939 | #2,206 | 14 |
| 1938 | #1,596 | 23 |
| 1937 | #1,493 | 25 |
| 1936 | #2,153 | 14 |
| 1935 | #1,514 | 24 |
| 1934 | #1,292 | 31 |
| 1933 | #1,224 | 34 |
| 1932 | #1,346 | 30 |
| 1931 | #1,314 | 31 |
| 1930 | #1,041 | 50 |
| 1929 | #1,107 | 44 |
| 1928 | #1,147 | 44 |
| 1927 | #1,010 | 57 |
| 1926 | #1,096 | 47 |
| 1925 | #1,136 | 46 |
| 1924 | #1,301 | 38 |
| 1923 | #1,111 | 47 |
| 1922 | #1,168 | 43 |
| 1921 | #1,341 | 35 |
| 1920 | #1,312 | 35 |
| 1919 | #1,017 | 50 |
| 1918 | #948 | 57 |
| 1917 | #866 | 63 |
| 1916 | #810 | 70 |
| 1915 | #738 | 81 |
| 1914 | #878 | 44 |
| 1913 | #840 | 39 |
| 1912 | #747 | 45 |
| 1911 | #932 | 22 |
| 1910 | #1,335 | 12 |
| 1909 | #890 | 21 |
| 1908 | #1,135 | 13 |
| 1907 | #898 | 18 |
| 1906 | #611 | 34 |
| 1905 | #797 | 21 |
| 1904 | #727 | 23 |
| 1903 | #836 | 17 |
| 1902 | #623 | 28 |
| 1901 | #699 | 21 |
| 1900 | #760 | 23 |
| 1899 | #704 | 20 |
| 1898 | #840 | 16 |
| 1897 | #867 | 14 |
| 1896 | #688 | 21 |
| 1895 | #893 | 13 |
| 1894 | #998 | 10 |
| 1893 | #826 | 13 |
| 1892 | #1,278 | 6 |
| 1891 | #839 | 11 |
| 1890 | #1,210 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Hildegard! It came in at #1,136, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Hildegard is popular in 1918
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#272 · 1 in 2,499
- Minnesota#275 · 1 in 2,252
- Iowa#403 · 1 in 4,401
- New York#628 · 1 in 16,860
Best ever in a state: #169 in Wisconsin, 1915.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #272 | 10 | 1 in 2,499 |
| Minnesota | #275 | 10 | 1 in 2,252 |
| Iowa | #403 | 5 | 1 in 4,401 |
| New York | #628 | 6 | 1 in 16,860 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Hildegard
- 1,097 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,491)
- 3,599 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #7,491)
- 6,991 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 452 spots in 1893 (#1,278 → #826)
- Biggest drop: 445 spots in 1910 (#890 → #1,335)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1906 at #611 (34 births)
- Births halved by 1908, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1893–1907
- Highest: 1 in 8,685 girls born in 1906 were named Hildegard (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.8% of all girls named Hildegard (483) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #1,136 (1888) | #1,136 |
| 1890s | 130 | #688 (1896) | #914 |
| 1900s | 219 | #611 (1906) | #798 |
| 1910s | 483 | #738 (1915) | #911 |
| 1920s | 436 | #1,010 (1927) | #1,173 |
| 1930s | 276 | #1,041 (1930) | #1,518 |
| 1940s | 108 | #2,018 (1941) | #3,116 |
| 1950s | 93 | #3,269 (1953) | #4,012 |
| 1960s | 42 | #4,437 (1960) | #5,515 |
| 1970s | 6 | #7,070 (1970) | #7,070 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 52 | #7,716 (2019) | #11,800 |
| 2020s | 94 | #5,638 (2022) | #7,468 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hildegard in 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
More about 1918
girls
1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 20,309 of them was named Hildegard, which outranked 83.0% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #937Maybell58
- #937Olympia58
- #937Trudie58
- #948Hildegard57
- #948Ana57
- #948Elfrieda57
- #948Emelia57
- #960Bernetta56
- #960Clemmie56
- #960Jesse56
Tied with 11 names at #948; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.