Matylda
A Slavic name meaning "strength in battle". It topped out early in the 2020s and has eased down since, and with around 18,600 women carrying it, meeting a Matylda still counts as a small event.
Matylda Pronunciation
Matylda is pronounced mah-TIHL-dah (/maˈtɨlda/).
What Matylda means
Where Matylda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Matylda grows from Slavic roots, and the meaning people give it is strength in battle, silna w walce. Its close variant, Matilda, travels easily across borders, so a Matylda who moves abroad answers to both spellings without much fuss.
That reading of strength sits beside the name rather than beneath it. A Matylda need not fight. The word leans toward endurance, toward the person who stays steady when a situation turns heavy, and it has held that sense for a long while.
In Poland the name keeps its imieniny on 14 March, the day the Church remembers Matylda of Ringelheim. A Matylda in a school register might get a small round of wishes between one lesson and the next. The form is old and the meaning is plain: silna w walce, strong in battle.
When Matylda celebrates name day
Matylda appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 14 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Matylda
1 in 1212 women in Poland is named Matylda. 18,597 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #285 among female names.
Matylda's popularity over time
713 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #85 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Matylda is most popular
Matylda is most popular in Greater Poland, 26% above the national average (832 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+26%) and Pomeranian (+24%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Lublin, 46% and 41% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland832 girls born+26%
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Silesian874 girls born+26%
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Pomeranian560 girls born+24%
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Lower Silesian578 girls born+20%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian354 girls born+6%
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Masovian1,096 girls born+1%
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Lesser Poland688 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian246 girls born−5%
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Opole131 girls born−7%
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Lubusz119 girls born−22%
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Warmian-Masurian168 girls born−23%
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Łódź287 girls born−26%
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Świętokrzyskie120 girls born−29%
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Subcarpathian258 girls born−30%
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Lublin186 girls born−41%
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Podlaskie108 girls born−46%
Matylda as a middle name
Matylda is a first name for 18,597 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,220, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 136th, between Apolonia (6,256) and Diana (6,219).
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#134 Nina6,424
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#135 Apolonia6,256
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#136 Matylda6,220
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#137 Diana6,219
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#138 Aurelia5,694