Tilda

Where Tilda comes from

The dictionaries list Tilda as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, short form of Matilda — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #320
    31 babies named Tilda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #724.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, short form of Matilda.
Namesakes

No widely known Tilda turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.