Matylda

given name · Polish · Latin script

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

Matylda is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht + hild, hilta.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 274◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 420
  • NONorway1 in 912

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

≈325K ●

across 17 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
271 ●

164K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 238 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MatildaLatin · English●171K records
МатильдаCyrillic · Russian●2.6K records
ᲛატილდაGeorgian · Georgian●824 records
มาทิลดาThai · Thai●14 records
ΜατίλνταGreek · Greek●1 records
ՄաթիլդաArmenian · Armenian●0 records
마틸다Hangul · Korean●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matilda in US United States, AU Australia, FI Finland and 16 more, Matilde in ES Spain, Матильда in RU Russia and Матільда in UA Ukraine.

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●

Derivation of Matylda: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Matylda
  1. Old FrenchMathilde●
  2. Old High Germanmaht●

Borrowed from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht + hild, hilta.

Sources 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Matylda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—146,370△2 rec.1 in 464146K—3
AU Australia#34853,60914K rec.—780Matilda153
SE Sweden#8237,193△14K rec.1 in 27437KMatilda99
ES Spain—28,108△358 rec.1 in 1.8K30KMatilde29
FI Finland—23,436△230 rec.1 in 23848KMatilda19
BR Brazil—21,849△2 rec.1 in 9.7K30KMatilda3
PL Poland#27919,259△821 rec.1 in 2K19KMatylda96
DK Denmark—13,983△64 rec.1 in 42014KMatilda43
US United States—13,802100K rec.1 in 24K14KMatilda271
GB United Kingdom—10,7036.9K rec.—1.2KMatilda149
EC Ecuador—6,622△13 rec.1 in 2.6K6.6K—3
NO Norway—5,997△158 rec.1 in 91222KMatilda15

Roughly 146K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 464). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Polish92K91%
  • Czech6.9K7%
  • English7061%
  • French4591%
  • German2361%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish92,39791%
Czech6,9447%
English7061%
French4591%
German2361%

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◐

Matylda is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name655 records spelled Matylda7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Chile, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Matyldà, Mätyldà, Mätyldä

27 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.

Over time●

020406020002005201020152020

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Matylda in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199911
200011
200111
200210
200312
200413
200513
200615
200715
200819
200923
201026
201126
201226
201328
201433
201534
201640
201742
201846
201953
202055

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Matilda of Brandenburg, b. 1250Madame de Thèbes, b. 1845Matylda Getter, b. 1870Matylda Pálfyová, b. 1912Matylda Růžičková, b. 1933Matylda Buczko, b. 1953Matylda Podfilipska, b. 1980Matylda Baczyńska, b. 1984Matylda Damięcka, b. 1985Matylda Kowal, b. 1989

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 36 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Matylda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—19K#150
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202619K#150
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1.5K#407
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—767#456
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—767#449
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)—560—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—121#6,811
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—87#9,417
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202055—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201953—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201846—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—44#2,811

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matylda?
We estimate roughly 325 thousand people bear Matylda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Matylda have the most bearers?
We estimate about 146 thousand people bear Matylda in France, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Matylda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matylda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 238 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is Matylda compared with other names?
In Sweden, Matylda is the 82nd most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
Is Matylda a male or female name?
Matylda 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 Matylda mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old French Mathilde, from Old High German maht, meht + hild, hilta.
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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, “Matylda” — the 82nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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