Matilda (name)

Mathilde is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

Holy Day of Remembrance

  • Mathilde the Holy, March 14

Variants

  • Mathilde (also French)
  • Matilde
  • Matilda ( also English )
  • Mathilda ( also English )
  • Maud (English)
  • Mahout
  • Mafalda (Italian, Portuguese)
  • Mechthild
  • Mati, Matty
  • Hilde
  • Patty
  • Patsy
  • Tilli, Tilly

Frequency

The name is from the Middle Ages because of the devotion to the Holy Mathilde (around 895-968 ), wife of Henry the Saxons, spread. The name was revived by the Knights seal the 18th and 19th century. His best finish 1890-2007 he had in 1900 with No. 37 of the most common female name in Germany. The name variants Mathilda and Matilda were more popular in 1999-2010. Previously, they were completely unknown in Germany. 2010, they were ranked 52 of the most common first names for newborn girls in Germany.

Famous names winners

Aristocrat

  • Mathilde the Saints ( around 895-968 ), wife of the East Frankish king Henry I.
  • Mathilde I. (Essen), Abbess of Essen in the 10th century
  • Matilda II ( Food ) ( 949-1011 ), granddaughter of Emperor Otto the Great, Abbess of the most important food
  • Mathilde ( Quedlinburg ) ( 955-999 ), the first Abbess of Quedlinburg
  • Mathilde (Lorraine ) ( 979-1025 ), daughter of Emperor Otto II
  • Matilda of Friesland (ca. 1024-1044 ), Queen of France
  • Matilda of Franconia (1027-1034), Queen of France
  • Matilda of Flanders (1032-1083), wife of William the Conqueror
  • Matilda of Tuscany ( Mathilde / Matilda of Tuscany / Canossa ) ( 1046-1115 )
  • Mathilde of Swabia (1048-1060), Duchess of Swabia
  • Matilda of England ( Edith of Scotland, to 1080-1118 ), King consort of England
  • Matilda (England ) ( 1102-1167 ), wife of the Emperor Henry V.
  • Mathilda of Boulogne (1105-1152), Queen of England and reigning Countess of Boulogne
  • Mathilde von Andechs, also Mechthild of Unterdießen (around 1125-1160 ), Augustinian canon wife and Abbess of Edelstetten
  • Matilda of Savoy (1125-1157), Queen of Portugal
  • Mathilde Plantagenet (1156-1189), second wife of Henry the Lion
  • Matilda of Courtenay (1188-1257), daughter of Peter II of Courtenay and Agnes I. of Nevers
  • Mathilde of Angoulême ( † after 1233 ), heiress of Angouleme
  • Matilda of Boulogne (1202-1262), Queen of Portugal
  • Matilda of Brandenburg (1210-1261), Duchess of Brunswick- Lüneburg
  • Mathilde I. ( Bourbon ) ( † 1228 ), the only child of Archambault ( VIII ) of Bourbon
  • Matilda II ( Bourbon ) ( 1234-1262 ), Countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre
  • Mathilde ( Artois ) ( 1270-1329 ), Countess Palatine of Burgundy
  • Matilda of Brabant (1224-1288), through their marriages Countess of Artois and Saint-Pol
  • Maud of Lancaster (1339-1362), English nobleman
  • Mathilde von Baden, abbess in Trier
  • Caroline Matilda of Hanover, born Princess of Great Britain (1751-1775), Queen of Denmark and Norway
  • Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester (1773-1844), a member of the British Royal Family
  • Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813-1862), wife of Grand Duke Ludwig III. of Hesse and by Rhine
  • Mathilde von Hohenlohe - Öhringen (1814-1888), Princess of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen
  • Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte (1820-1904), niece of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Duchess Mathilde of Bavaria (1843-1925), German high nobility of the house of Wittelsbach
  • Mathilde of Austria -Teschen (1849-1867), Archduchess of Austria
  • Mathilde of Saxony (1863-1933), daughter of George I of Saxony
  • Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877-1906), daughter of King Ludwig III. of Bavaria
  • Mathilde of Belgium ( b. 1973 ), Queen of the Belgians

Artists

  • Mathilde Esch (1820-1904), German painter
  • Mathilde Vollmoeller - Purrmann (1876-1943), German painter
  • Mathilde Kliefert - casting (1887-1978), German painter
  • Marie- Mathilde Ducatillon - Sauthier ( born 1953 ), Swiss painter
  • Mathilde Rosier, French artist

Musicians and singers

  • Mathilde Marchesi de Castrone (1821-1913), German opera singer
  • Mathilde Mallinger (1847-1920), Austrian opera singer
  • Mathilde Bauermeister (1849-1926), German opera singer
  • Mathilde Kralik of Meyrswalden (1857-1944), Austrian composer
  • Mathilde Beckmann (1904-1986), German singer
  • Mathilde Santing (born 1958 ), Dutch singer
  • Mathilde Sternat, French cellist

Politicians

  • Mathilde Hitzfeld (1826-1905), Palatine irregulars activist in the revolution of March 1848/49
  • Mathilde Drees (1862-1938), German educator and politician
  • Mathilde Gantenberg (1889-1975), German politician
  • Mathilde Berghofer - Weichner, born Weichner (* 1931), German lawyer and politician
  • Mathilde Wine Andy (* 1950), Rhineland-Palatinate politician

Actresses

  • Mathilde Wildenauer (1820-1878), Austrian actress and singer
  • Mathilde Sussin (1876-1943), Austrian actress
  • Mathilde Danegger (1903-1988), Austrian actress
  • Mathilda May (born 1965 ), French actress
  • Mathilde Seigner ( born 1968 ), French actress
  • Merkel Matilda (* 1996), German actress

Writers

  • Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884), German writer
  • Mathilde Raven (1817-1902), German writer
  • Beeg Mathilde (1826-1905), German writer
  • Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902), German writer
  • Mathilde Fibiger (1830-1872), Danish writer and tutor
  • Mathilda Betham -Edwards (1836-1919), British travel writer and author of short stories
  • Matilde Camus (1919-2012), Spanish poet and writer
  • Matilde Asensi (born 1962 ), Spanish writer

Other

  • Mathilde von Rohr (1810-1889), penpal of Theodor Fontane
  • Mathilde von Keller (1853-1945), Hofstaatsdame the German Empress and Queen of Prussia Auguste Viktoria
  • Matilda Howell (1859-1939), American archer
  • Matilda Felixowna Kschessinskaja (1872-1971), Russian ballet dancer
  • Mathilde Jacob (1873-1943), German translator and typist
  • Mathilde Paravicini (1875-1954), Swiss humanist and pioneer of Children's Train
  • Mathilde Ludendorff (1877-1966), founder of the Federation of German knowledge of God, wife of Erich Ludendorff
  • Mathilde Uhlirz (1881-1966), Austrian historian of Medieval History
  • Mathilde Vaerting (1884-1977), German educator and sociologist
  • Matilde Hidalgo (1889-1974), Ecuadorian doctor and women's rights activist
  • Mathilde Klose (1892-1942), German trade unionist
  • Mathilde Auguste Kommerling Hedwig (1896-1993), German historian and a founding member of the German Women's Rings
  • Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 1972 ), French director
  • Mathilde Gerg (* 1975), German ski racer

Fictional characters

  • To figures of this name in film, literature and music see Mathilde (disambiguation)
Old High German Maud (given name) Hilde (given name) Patty (disambiguation) Mathilde, Abbess of Essen Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg Matilda of Germany, Countess Palatine of Lotharingia Matilda of Frisia Matilda of Scotland Mechtildis of Edelstetten Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg Mahaut, Countess of Artois Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois Princess Sophia of Gloucester Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863–1933) Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877–1906)
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