Matilda
1.22k
Babies in 2024
-15%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 1.92k
+1%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Matilda
Matilda is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #31 for girls born in 2024 with 1,220 babies registered in England & Wales.
Matilda reached its peak in 2016, when 1,915 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #25 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 1,220 represents 64% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 29,965 girls have been officially registered with the name Matilda in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 16,679 girls were registered with the name, starting from 1,440 in 2014 and ending at 1,220 in 2024.