Matilda

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A female given name from the Germanic languages

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

/mətɪldə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Matilda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 274(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2Kas Matylda
  • FIFinland1 in 238

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Matilda 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.

Sweden (measured from records)

37,193 people

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
323 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MatildaLatin(measured from records)
МатильдаCyrillic(measured from records)
ՄաթիլդաArmenian(measured from records)
มาทิลดาThai(measured from records)
ΜατίλνταGreek(measured from records)
მათილდაGeorgian(measured from records)
마틸다Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Matylda in PL Poland.

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 name meaning 'might, strife'; brought to Ireland via the Normans.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Matilda is read(measured from records)

Matilda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English54%

    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

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

    the mighty battle maiden

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Spanish14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Matilda in Spanish.

  • Swedish8.4%

    Matilda är en latiniserad form av det tyska Mechtild, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt ma(c)ht ’makt, kraft’ och → -hild. Namnet var bland de mest populära under decennierna runt millennieskiftet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 14 mars, efter den tyska drottningen Mathilde (900-talet). Denna grundade ett nunnek loster i Quedlingburg, vilket ledde till att hon blev helgonförklarad.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Matilda 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.

Where Matilda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#7537,1931 in 27437KMatilda117
ES Spain—28,108as Matilde1 in 1.8K30KMatilda28
FI Finland—23,4361 in 23848KMatilda20
BR Brazil—21,849as Matilde1 in 9.7K30K—3
PL Poland#69119,259as Matylda1 in 2K19KMatylda97
DK Denmark—13,983as Mathilde1 in 42014KMatilda43
NO Norway—5,997as Mathilde1 in 91222KMatilda17
AL Albania—2,2201 in 1.4K2.2K——

37,193 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Chile, France

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Matílda, Mätïldä, Mátilda, Matìlda, Màtilda

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mātīldā

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Sweden, Ghana

    Also written Mãtildä

55 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(measured from records)

Matilda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Germanic name meaning 'might, strife'; brought to Ireland via the Normans.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1000120014001600180020002200Matilde di Canossa, b. 1046Matilda, b. 1102Charlotte, Princess Royal, b. 1766Naima Wifstrand, b. 1890Matilde Mastrangi, b. 1953Tilda Swinton, b. 1960Mathilda May, b. 1965Tuva Matilda Moa Karolina Hedström, b. 1979Matilda De Angelis, b. 1995Princess Josephine of Denmark, b. 2011

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)

InformalHi Matilda,

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 106 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Matilda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—48K#29
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—37K#109
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—23K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017K—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—2.2K#167
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2K#1,091
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,720
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022762—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—761#9,986
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—732#1,699
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—621#599
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026621#599

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Matilda come from?
Germanic name meaning 'might, strife'; brought to Ireland via the Normans. Recorded by Irish first names.
What are other forms of the name Matilda?
In the etymology graph, Matilde, Mathilde and Maud are forms of the same name in other languages; Mattie and Tillie are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Matilda have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Matilda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matilda.
Where is Matilda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matilda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 238 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Matilda mean?
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Is Matilda a male or female name?
Matilda 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.
How do you pronounce Matilda?
A machine transcription gives /mətɪldə/ (IPA) for English.
How common is the name Matilda?
In Sweden, the national register counted 37,193 people named Matilda, about 1 in 274 residents.
How common is Matilda compared with other names?
In Sweden, Matilda is the 75th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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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, “Matilda” — the 75th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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