Tilda
Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Tilda was most popular in 1924, when 35 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,485 that year. In 2025 it ranked #11,378, with 17 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,040 people named Tilda.
Tilda over time
How old is the name Tilda?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Tilda is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 115 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Tilda?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,040 American births named Tilda 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 707 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tilda in 2025?
17 American babies were named Tilda in 2025, ranking #11,378 that year.
Is Tilda getting more or less popular?
Tilda is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 18 births a year across 2021–2025 against 11 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Tilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tilda is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,040 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% 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 Tilda?
Roughly 707 Americans named Tilda are alive today — 35% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 63 years old, and half are between 11 and 74. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
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 Tilda 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