Given name · also Germanic
Clothilda
Clothilda is a feminine given name from Germanic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Clothilda is a form of Clotilda. Clotilda comes from French, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Clothilda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1957. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1923.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Clothilda’s family of names
In English usage, Clothilda has a related form in Clotilda.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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