Mathilde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic maht+hild ‘force’+‘combat’; sainte Mathilde, fête le 14 mars
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/matild/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mathilde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 681(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 842as Matilde
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.7Kas Matilde
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mathilde itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- 1 in 420 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Matilde in AR Argentina, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic maht+hild ‘force’+‘combat’; sainte Mathilde, fête le 14 mars.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mathilde counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #124 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 681 | 146K | Mathilde | 396 |
| ES Spain | #240 | 28,108as Matilde | 1 in 1.8K | 30K | Matilde | 152 |
| AR Argentina | #301 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 77 | Matilde | 88 |
| BR Brazil | #555 | 21,849as Matilde | 1 in 9.7K | 30K | Matilde | 92 |
| PE Peru | #318 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Matilde | 49 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13,983 | 1 in 420 | 14K | — | — |
| PT Portugal | #121 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | 942 | Matilde | 110 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,997 | 1 in 912 | 22K | Mathilde | 30 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mathilde is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Germanic Mahthildis, meaning 'strength/power in battle'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, from Germanic maht 'might' + hild 'battle'; source of Metze
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In French, From Germanic maht 'strength' + hild 'battle'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, from maht 'might, power' + hild 'battle'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Danish, a female given name, equivalent to English Matilda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Matilda of Flandersb. 1031BEnot in their usual namewife of William the Conqueror and Queen consort of the Kingdom of England
- Matilde di Canossab. 1046ITCanossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
- Matildab. 1102GBnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
- Matilda of Boulogneb. 1105FRnot in their usual nameCountess of Boulogne and Queen Consort of England (1105-1152)
- Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxonyb. 1156GBnot in their usual nameEnglish princess
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhineb. 1863DEnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt (1863–1950)
- Matilde Mastrangib. 1953BRBrazilian actress
- Alexandra Lamyb. 1971FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Tig Notarob. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican stand-up comic, writer, podcaster, and actress
- Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acozb. 1973BEQueen consort of Belgium
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 146K | #117 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22K | #206 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14K | #44 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 882 | #9,979 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 805 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 804 | #9,630 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 178 | #32 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 163 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 158 | #10,884 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 147 | #5,147 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 22 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mathilde mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic maht+hild ‘force’+‘combat’; sainte Mathilde, fête le 14 mars. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Mathilde?
- A machine transcription gives /matild/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mathilde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Mathilde in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mathilde.
- Where is Mathilde most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mathilde is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 420 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- Is Mathilde a male or female name?
- Mathilde 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 are other forms of the name Mathilde?
- In the etymology graph, Matilde, Mattie and Matilda are forms of the same name in other languages; Til is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Mathilde?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 13,983 people named Mathilde, about 1 in 420 residents.
- How common is Mathilde compared with other names?
- In France, Mathilde is the 124th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mathildeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Mathilde” — the 124th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.