Given name & surname
Clotilde
“a woman famous in battle”
Clotilde is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a woman famous in battle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a woman famous in battle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
From Clotilde, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Clotilde through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,018
- 0 boys · 1,018 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 36 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 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,694 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Clotilde’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Clotilde has a diminutive in Tilde. In French usage, Clotilde shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form CLOTILE. In French usage, Clotilde has a conventional equivalent in the English form Clotilda.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Clotilde has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
5 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Clotilde
- Clotildesaint and second wife of the Frankish king Clovis I474–545
- Clotilde CourauFrench actressborn 1969
- Clotilde of FranceQueen consort of Sardinia (1796-1802) and Venerable1759–1802
- Clotilde HesmeFrench actress (born 1979)
- Clotildedaughter of King Clovis I of the Franks and Queen Clotilde; wife of the Visigothic King Amalaric500–531
- ChrothildisPeerage person ID=672394
- Clotilde LuisiUruguayan lawyer (1882-1969)
- Clotilde TambroniItalian linguist1758–1817
- Clotilde Micheliltalian nun and Blessed (1849–1911)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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