Nilda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: abreviación de Brunilda, Sunilda, Suanilda, etc
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nilda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nilda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 38th most common given name.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 515(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 605
- ARArgentina≈1 in 616
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 515 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
abreviación de Brunilda, Sunilda, Suanilda, etc.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nilda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #214 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | 8 | Nilda | 84 |
| PH Philippines | #510 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 27K | Nilda | 61 |
| BR Brazil | #564 | 37,316 | 1 in 5.7K | 44K | Nilda | 97 |
| PE Peru | #358 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Nilda | 55 |
| PY Paraguay | #114 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 605 | — | Nilda | 30 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #40 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 515 | 6 | Nilda | 45 |
| BO Bolivia | #38 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Nilda | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | #115 | 4,193 | 1 in 808 | 4.2K | Nilda | 27 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)
Nilda 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 German, weibl. Vom., spanische bzw. italienische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Nilda Pintob. 1918NLDutch writer in Papiamento (1918-1954)
- Nilde Iottib. 1920ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician (1920–1999)
- Nilda Spencerb. 1923BRBrazilian actress
- Nilda Raggib. 1938ARArgentinian actor
- Nilda Jara de Paniaguab. 1942PEPeruvian politician
- Nilda Celia Garréb. 1945ARArgentine politician
- Nilda Gondimb. 1946BRBrazilian politician
- Nilda Ceperob. 1953CUCuban writer
- Nilda Fernándezb. 1957ESSpanish-French singer
- Nilda Ismael do Nascimentob. 1972BRBrazilian football 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 53 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 44K | #851 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 44K | #331 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37K | #707 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 164 | #707 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 108 | #17,698 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 76 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 19 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 8 | #2,325 |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2001 | 6 | #515 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nilda?
- A machine transcription gives /nilda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nilda mean?
- Recorded meaning: abreviación de Brunilda, Sunilda, Suanilda, etc.
- Is Nilda a male or female name?
- Nilda 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 Nilda?
- In the etymology graph, Hilda is a form of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Brunilda.
- In which country does Nilda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Nilda in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nilda.
- How common is the name Nilda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 37,316 people named Nilda in 2022, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Nilda compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Nilda is the 214th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nilda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nildaThe 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, “Nilda” — the 214th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.