# Hildred (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hildred/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,825 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 421 / 2,404 (85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 11 | 2,808 |
| 1946 | 8 | 3,798 |
| 1947 | 15 | 2,686 |
| 1948 | 11 | 3,222 |
| 1949 | 13 | 2,904 |
| 1950 | 16 | 2,597 |
| 1951 | 7 | 4,547 |
| 1952 | 9 | 3,930 |
| 1954 | 6 | 5,379 |
| 1955 | 9 | 4,181 |
| 1957 | 6 | 5,668 |
| 1958 | 5 | 6,444 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,826 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,991 |
| 1965 | 6 | 6,063 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 7 | 3,067 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,759 |
| 1944 | 5 | 3,636 |
| 1945 | 6 | 3,142 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,327 |
| 1947 | 9 | 2,761 |
| 1948 | 8 | 2,877 |
| 1949 | 6 | 3,492 |
| 1950 | 7 | 3,166 |
| 1951 | 10 | 2,561 |
| 1954 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,381 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,242 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,297 |
| 1963 | 6 | 3,803 |

## People named Hildred

- John Wall, American basketball player (born 1990)

## 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.