Girl
Gilda
Rooted in Germanic, Gilda is a girl's name that means "Germanic gild". It was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
GermanicGermanic "gild"
EtymologyMeaning "sacrifice" or "golden"
Births by decade
1900s
94
1910s
899
1920s
2,161
1930s
1,223
1940s
1,520
1950s
2,078
1960s
913
1970s
462
1980s
265
1990s
262
2000s
92
2010s
54
Peaked in the 1920s · 10,023 total U.S. births since 1900