Matilde

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Matilde is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Cape Verde it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Germánico, de math/mecht ‘poder’ + hild ‘combate’: ‘poderosa en la batalla’.

rarermore common
  • CVCape Verde1 in 106◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 407
  • FRFrance1 in 464

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈235K ●

across 12 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
383 ●

952K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 420 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

MatildeLatin · Spanish●909K records
ΜατθίλδηGreek · Greek●4 records
마틸드Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mathilde in FR France, NO Norway, BE Belgium and 7 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Spanish

Germánico, de math/mecht ‘poder’ + hild ‘combate’: ‘poderosa en la batalla’.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Matilde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#340311,376218K rec.—77Matilde84
FR France#140146,370294K rec.1 in 464146KMathilde383
MX Mexico#296143,547123K rec.—596Matilde128
PE Peru#36093,36777K rec.——Matilde43
VE Venezuela#33776,64841K rec.——Matilde40
CL Chile#28345,7541.9K rec.—329Matilde68
ES Spain#24228,10825K rec.1 in 1.8K30KMatilde142
BR Brazil#79221,84939K rec.1 in 9.7K30KMatilde94
PT Portugal#7020,6183.5K rec.—942Matilde107
PH Philippines—16,23916K rec.——Matilde39
DK Denmark—13,983—1 in 42014K——
CO Colombia#44112,1835.7K rec.——Matilde75

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish909K55%
  • Portuguese485K29%
  • English95K6%
  • Catalan28K2%
  • French12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish909,42255%
Portuguese485,28229%
English95,4016%
Catalan28,1122%
French11,9831%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Matilde is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name125K records spelled Matilde16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Denmark

    Languages: English, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Matílde, Mätïldë, Mãtïldē, Matïldë

  • Catalan given name41K records spelled Matilde4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Matildé, Mãtílde

  • Lao given name851 records spelled Matilde3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written มาติลเด

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Matilde is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Forte guerriera

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Danish, a female given name, a less common spelling of Mathilde ( =Matilda)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019001950200065 · 1927

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Matilde in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1883–2025
Yearrecords
188310
18867
18886
18895
18907
18917
18926
18947
189610
18986
18999
19006
19016
190215
190315
19045
19059
190613
190712
19085
190916
191014
191110
191211
19137
191418
191527
191628
191717
191820
191925
192042
192139
192233
192334
192446
192537
192639
192765
192834
192948
193054
193149
193242
193343
193435
193520
193629
193720
193821
193918
194017
194119
194217
194317
194422
194516
194617
194715
194823
194928
195013
195113
195222
195313
195421
195525
195618
195724
195821
195919
196016
196115
196213
196324
196423
196533
196632
196718
196826
196927
197031
197138
197230
197329
197429
197528
197634
197728
197817
197931
198029
198122
198234
198325
198424
198516
198615
198715
198813
198916
199025
199124
199231
199319
199412
199515
199616
199723
199819
199919
200020
200120
200219
200323
200430
200535
200636
200726
200837
200931
201030
201127
201229
201333
201421
201529
201629
201740
201833
201932
202026
202137
202243
202349
202437
202527

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 137 years between 1883–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Mathilde von Schwaben, b. 1000Matilde di Canossa, b. 1046Matilde d'Altavilla, b. 1060Matilda, b. 1102Matilde Serao, b. 1856Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, b. 1900Matilde Camus, b. 1919Matilde Mastrangi, b. 1953Matilde Gioli, b. 1989Matilde Ortiz, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 91 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Matilde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—30K#143
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—30K#1,095
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28K#268
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202222K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22K#1,007
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.4K#2,494
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.6K#286
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—6.3K#558
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—3.3K#185
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20243K#8
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.7K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.5K#1,088

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,113 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matilde?
We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Matilde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Matilde have the most bearers?
Matilde is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled matilde.
How common is Matilde compared with other names?
In Argentina, Matilde is the 340th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Matilde a male or female name?
Matilde is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Matilde mean?
Recorded meaning: Germánico, de math/mecht ‘poder’ + hild ‘combate’: ‘poderosa en la batalla’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Matilde” — the 340th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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