Hildegarde
Recorded 1885–1961 · United States
Hildegarde was most popular in 1915, when 124 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,070 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,326 people named Hildegarde.
Hildegarde over time
How old is the name Hildegarde?
Hildegarde first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1885, which makes it about 140 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 74 of the 141 years since. It was last recorded in 1961.
How many people are named Hildegarde?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,326 American births named Hildegarde between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 237 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Hildegarde in 2025?
Hildegarde was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Hildegarde a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Hildegarde is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,326 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Hildegarde?
Roughly 237 Americans named Hildegarde are alive today — 10% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 83 years old, and half are between 75 and 89.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Hildegarde is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org