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How popular is the name Matilda?
Births per year, rank history and how many Matildas are alive today.
Matilda (female) is currently the 31st most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,220 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 1,915 babies were given the name, the 25th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 29,000 babies have been named Matilda in England and Wales since 1996. Matilda is one spelling of a name also recorded as Mathilda; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Matilda you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Matildas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 18, and there are at least 32,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 9.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Matilda.
How many babies are named Matilda each year?
Includes all spellings: Matilda, Mathilda. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Matilda spelling rank?
Where does the Mathilda spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Matilda most popular?
Matilda peaked in 2016, when 1,954 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Matilda?
At least 32,000 people named Matilda in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Matilda?
Most living Matildas are between 7 and 18; the most common age is about 10.
Is Matilda becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.