# Clotilde (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/clotilde/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,018 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,018 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Clotilde, from 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | 6,420 |
| 1961 | 9 | 4,596 |
| 1963 | 6 | 6,002 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,128 |
| 1965 | 8 | 4,903 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6,141 |
| 1970 | 6 | 7,218 |
| 1971 | 5 | 8,561 |
| 1972 | 10 | 5,170 |
| 1974 | 6 | 7,871 |
| 1975 | 5 | 9,346 |
| 1981 | 5 | 10,727 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,414 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,726 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,028 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |

## People named Clotilde

- Clotilde Courau, French actress
- Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, daughter of Vittorio Emanuele II (1843–1911)
- Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Archduchess of Austria, Austrian archduchess (1846-1927)
- Clotilde Hesme, French actress (born 1979)
- Clotilde, daughter of King Clovis I of the Franks and Queen Clotilde; wife of the Visigothic King Am
- Clotilde Cerdà i Bosch, Catalan musician
- Clotilde de Vaux, French writer and poet (1815–1846)
- Clotilde Mollet, French actress
- Clotilde von Derp, German dancer (1892–1974)
- Clotilde Reiss, accused French spy
- Clotilde Essiane, Cameroonian boxer and association football player
- Clotilde García Borrero, Colombian suffragette and feminist (1887-1969)

## 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.