# Hildegarde (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hildegarde/  
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 | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,326 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 2,326 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 19 | 2,185 |
| 1947 | 8 | 4,126 |
| 1948 | 8 | 4,011 |
| 1949 | 7 | 4,401 |
| 1950 | 8 | 4,095 |
| 1951 | 10 | 3,584 |
| 1952 | 7 | 4,652 |
| 1953 | 12 | 3,348 |
| 1954 | 7 | 4,870 |
| 1955 | 7 | 4,899 |
| 1956 | 5 | 6,302 |
| 1958 | 6 | 5,671 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,825 |
| 1960 | 5 | 6,718 |
| 1961 | 13 | 3,672 |

## People named Hildegarde

- Hildegarde of Burgundy, Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers
- Hildegarde Howard, American paleornithologist
- Hildegarde, American singer (1906–2005)
- Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
- Princess Hildegard Louise of Bavaria, Bavarian princess (1825-1864)

## 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.