Matilde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germánico, de math/mecht ‘poder’ + hild ‘combate’: ‘poderosa en la batalla’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mat̪ild̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matilde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 842(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K
- ESSpain1 in 1.8K
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 Matilde 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 842 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 named Mathilde, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mathilde in FR France, NO Norway.
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)
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(measured from records)
Matilde 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 | 28,108 | 1 in 1.8K | 30K | Matilde | 152 |
| AR Argentina | #301 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 77 | Matilde | 88 |
| BR Brazil | #555 | 21,849 | 1 in 9.7K | 30K | Matilde | 92 |
| PE Peru | #318 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Matilde | 49 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13,983as Mathilde | 1 in 420 | 14K | — | — |
| PT Portugal | #121 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | 942 | Matilde | 110 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,997as Mathilde | 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mathilde von Schwabenb. 1000not in their usual name11th-century Conradine dynasty duchess
- Matilde di Canossab. 1046ITCanossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
- Matilde d'Altavillab. 1060ESDaughter of Robert Guiscard; Countess of Barcelona, Viscountess of Narbonne
- Matildab. 1102GBnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
- Matilde Seraob. 1856GRItalian journalist and writer, editor (1856–1927)
- Matilde Muñoz Sampedrob. 1900ESSpanish film actress (1900-1969)
- Matilde Camusb. 1919ESSpanish poet (1919–2012)
- Matilde Mastrangib. 1953BRBrazilian actress
- Matilde Giolib. 1989ITItalian actress and model (born 1989)
- Matilde Ortizb. 1990ESSpanish water polo player
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 92 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30K | #143 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 30K | #1,095 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28K | #268 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 22K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22K | #1,007 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.3K | #558 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.3K | #185 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.5K | #1,088 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2024 | 942 | #4 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 155 | #1,007 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 77 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Matilde?
- In the etymology graph, Mathilde, Mattie and Matilda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Matilde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Mathilde in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Matilde?
- In Spain, the national register counted 28,108 people named Matilde, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Matilde compared with other names?
- In France, Matilde is the 124th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Matilde?
- A machine transcription gives /mat̪ild̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Matilde mean?
- Recorded meaning: Germánico, de math/mecht ‘poder’ + hild ‘combate’: ‘poderosa en la batalla’.
- 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matildeThe 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, “Matilde” — the 124th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.