Matilde
Meaning
battle-mighty (Portuguese form of the German Mathilde)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Matilde has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
21,849 people · the #1,007 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 9,259 · median age 64
Among people named Matilde living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 39 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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