# Clotilda (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/clotilda/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Clothilda |
| US babies named this | 497 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 497 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

A Latinate form of the French Clotilde, of Germanic origin (Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 10 | 2,885 |
| 1931 | 7 | 3,554 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,637 |
| 1933 | 8 | 3,164 |
| 1934 | 5 | 4,403 |
| 1935 | 13 | 2,326 |
| 1936 | 9 | 2,899 |
| 1937 | 7 | 3,508 |
| 1938 | 5 | 4,442 |
| 1939 | 6 | 3,840 |
| 1946 | 7 | 4,072 |
| 1947 | 5 | 5,438 |
| 1950 | 5 | 5,438 |
| 1955 | 5 | 5,984 |
| 1961 | 5 | 6,726 |

## In other languages

- French: Clotilde, Clothilde
- Hungarian: Klotild
- Italian: Clotilde
- Portuguese: Clotilde
- Spanish: Clotilde, Clotilda

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.