Entry № 10597 · Germanic origin

Tilda Tilda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TIL-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Mighty in battle (Tilda Swinton, Academy Award winner)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "mighty in battle (tilda swinton, academy award winner)".

Tilda is the German-Scandinavian short form of Matilda — from the Old High German Mahthildis, maht (might) + hild (battle). BAFTA Fellowship (2020). "Tilda" Lindstrom is a top Swedish rice brand. Saint Matilda of Quedlinburg — 10th-century German queen.

Subject of countless avant-garde cinema profiles.

Mighty in battle.

The name in its native script.

Tilda
Transliteration
Tilda
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɪl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tilda stands.

Tilda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tildas before her.

Real people
Tilda Swinton
British Oscar actress.
born 1960
In fiction
Tilda
Various European cinema.

Names connected to Tilda.

The number behind Tilda.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tilda reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.