Zilda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zilda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 42K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
66,419 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zilda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #356 | 66,419 | 1 in 3.2K | 83K | Zilda | 114 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Zilda | 8 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Zilda | 29 |
| US United States | — | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 202 | Zilda | 76 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Zilda | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 29 | 1 in 117K | 29 | Zilda | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 11 | 1 in 68K | 11 | Zilda | 1 |
66,419 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zilda do Zéb. 1919BRBrazilian singer and songwriter (1919-2002)
- Zilda Paimb. 1919BRBrazilian writer, painter, and folklorist
- Zilda Varandasb. 1920PTPortuguese photographer
- Zilda Ulbrichb. 1927BRBrazilian basketball player
- Zilda Arnsb. 1934BRBrazilian pediatrician (1934-2010)
- Zilda Cardosob. 1936BRBrazilian actress (1936-2019)
- Maria Zildab. 1951BRBrazilian actress
- Zilda Mayob. 1953BRBrazilian actress
- Zilda Gaspar Oliveira de AquinoBRBrazilian linguist
- Zilda Margarete Seixas de LucenaBRBrazilian ichthyologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.4K | #4,147 |
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
- Is Zilda a male or female name?
- Zilda 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 Zilda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Zilda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zilda.
- Where is Zilda most common?
- Zilda is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zilda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 66,419 people named Zilda in 2022, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Zilda compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Zilda is the 356th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zilda?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zildaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zilda” — the 356th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.