Given name

Yilda

Yilda is a given name from Italian. It is used in Spanish.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Yilda comes from Italian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Italian Gilda.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Yilda through the years

Babies since 1880
33
0 boys · 33 girls
Most popular year
1996
22 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
05101520002025Highest share 19960.0
Yilda in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1995–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 22 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 173 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.

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