# Hulda (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hulda/  
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 | 5,407 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,407 (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 | 17 | 2,343 |
| 1947 | 10 | 3,552 |
| 1948 | 6 | 4,885 |
| 1949 | 9 | 3,728 |
| 1950 | 12 | 3,131 |
| 1951 | 14 | 2,853 |
| 1952 | 7 | 4,655 |
| 1953 | 8 | 4,374 |
| 1954 | 10 | 3,822 |
| 1955 | 9 | 4,182 |
| 1956 | 9 | 4,275 |
| 1962 | 5 | 6,941 |
| 1965 | 6 | 6,067 |
| 1976 | 7 | 7,577 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,949 |

## People named Hulda

- Hulda Regehr Clark, Canadian naturopath and practitioner of alternative medicine (1928–2009)

## 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.