Feminine dossier · first seen 1885

Hildegarde

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Hildegarde
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

124

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1885Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,326

Hildegarde has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1915, when 124 girls were named Hildegarde.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,326 Americans have been named Hildegarde and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1885.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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