Casilda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Irish Gaelic: the vigilant one; boy/girl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kasild̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Casilda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 11K
- PEPeru≈1 in 11K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,967 people
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic: the vigilant one; boy/girl
Sources 1
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How Casilda is read(measured from records)
Casilda is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish78%
Del germánico Hatuhild, "batalladora, combatiente".
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English9.3%
Irish Gaelic: the vigilant one; boy/girl
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Casilda, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Casilda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,967 | 1 in 17K | 3.1K | Casilda | 79 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Casilda | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,949 | 1 in 109K | 2.8K | Casilda | 28 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Casilda | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #283 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Casilda | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | #696 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Casilda | 9 |
2,967 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: 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). 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)
Casilda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish: of uncertain origin. This was the name of an 11th-century saint who was born in Toledo. She was probably of Moorish descent. She lived as an anchorite nun in the province of Burgos, and is particularly venerated in Burgos and Toledo.
as a word
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)
- Casilda Manrique de Luyando y Hurtado de Mendozab. 1597Spanish courtier and royal mistress
- Casilda Iturrizarb. 1818ESSpanish philanthropist and businessperson
- Casilda Remigia de Salabert Arteagab. 1858ESSpanish noblewoman
- Casilda Benegasb. 1907ARParaguayan-born Argentinian supercentenarian (1907-2022)
- Casilda de Silvab. 1914ESSpanish noblewoman (1914–2008)
- Casilda Ordóñez Ferrerb. 1931ESSpanish poet (1931-2009)
- Casilda Rodrigáñezb. 1945ESSpanish writer
- Casilda Gutiérrezb. 1962ESSpanish politician
- Casilda of ToledoESChristian saint
- Casilda Sáenz de HerediaESwife of Miguel Primero de Rivera
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 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.1K | #652 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,320 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.8K | #4,846 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.8K | #2,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 856 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 485 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 434 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 does the name Casilda mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic: the vigilant one; boy/girl Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Casilda?
- A machine transcription gives /kasild̪a/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Casilda a male or female name?
- Casilda 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.
- In which country does Casilda have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Casilda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled casilda.
- How common is the name Casilda?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,967 people named Casilda, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Casilda compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Casilda is the 283rd most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Casilda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/casildaThe 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, “Casilda” — the 283rd most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.