How popular is the name Gilda?

Gilda ranks 1,409th among girls' names in US records, with 10,077 births since 1898. Over the past decade it accounts for 73.

Is Gilda a unisex name?

No. Gilda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1947, when 346 children were given the name. It has been in use for 127 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,409 of girl names

Pronounced G IH1 L D AH0 (ARPABET)

Gilda is a girls' name, and first appears in 1898. It has been given to 10,077 children — the 1,409th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 73 births across the past decade, against a peak of 346 in a single year. That peak was in 1947.

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Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Gilda?: Gilda ranks 1,409th among girls' names in US records, with 10,077 births since 1898. Over the past decade it accounts for 73.
Is Gilda a unisex name?: No. Gilda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Gilda most popular?: 1947, when 346 children were given the name. It has been in use for 127 years and is still recorded as of 2024.