Casilda

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 name·Diccionario 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Casilda, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Eulalia
• Lourdes
• Aurelia
• Dalia
• Adelina
• Dolores
• Anastasia
• Alma
• Antonia
• Cressida
• Francesca
• Arabella

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.

Casilda is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Casílda

47 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.

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.

• 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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

In Spanish /kasild̪a/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

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.

Is Casilda a male or female name?

Casilda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Venezuela (asosab).

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.