Matilda (given name)

Mathilda
	Seal of Empress Matilda, claimant to the English throne between 1141 and 1148
Pronunciation	[məˌtɪldə]
Gender	Feminine
Origin
Meaning	Mighty in battle
Other names
Related names	Matilde, Mathilde, Tilda, Maud

Matilda, also spelled Mathilda and Martilda, is the English and Latin form of the Germanic female name Mahthildis, which derives from the Old High German "maht" (meaning "might and strength") and "hild" (meaning "battle").

Translations

Mahthildis (Ancient Germanic)
Matylda, Tylda (Czech)
Mathilde, Tilde, Tille (Danish)
Mathilde, Machteld, Mechteld (Dutch)
Mathilda, Matilda, Martilda, Marthilda, Matti, Mattie, Matty, Maud, Maude, Maudie, Tilda, Tilli, Tillie, Tilly (English)
Matilda (Finnish)
Martilda, Marty, Tilda, Thilda (Nigerian language)
Mathilde, Martilde, Mahault, Mahaud, Mahaut, Maheut (French)
Mathilde, Mechthild, Mechthildis, Mechtild, Mechtilde, Hilde, Tilde (German)
Matthilde (Ματθίλδη) (Greek)
Matilda (מטילדה) (Hebrew)
Matild (Hungarian)
Matthildur (Icelandic)
Maitilde (Irish)
Mafalda, Martelda, Matélda, Matilde (Italian)
Machiruda (マチルダ) (Japanese)
Matilda, Mathilda, Mathildis (Latin)
Mǣþhild (Old English)
Matylda (Polish)
Matilde (Portuguese)
Matilda (Romanian)
Matilda (Матильда) (Russian)
Matilde, Matilda, Marthilda (Spanish)

People

Mathilda

Mathilda Berwald (1798–1877), Swedish royal court singer
Mathilda Cajdos (1877–1909), Hungarian-American circus performer with the stage name Princess Nouma-Hawa
Mathilda d'Orozco (1796–1863), Italian composer
Mathilda Enequist (1833–1898), Swedish opera singer
Mathilda Foy (1813–1869), Swedish philanthropist
Mathilda Gelhaar (1813–1889), Swedish opera singer
Mathilda Högberg (born 1994), Swedish social media influencer
Mathilda Linsén (1831–1872), Finnish educator
Mathilda May (born 1965), French film actress
Mathilda Rotkirch (1813–1842), Finnish painter

Matilda

Matilda Greathouse Alexander (1842–1892), Indiana writer
Matilda Algotsson (born 1998), Swedish figure skater
Matilda Allison (1888–1973), American educator
Matilda Aku Alomatu (born 1970), Ghanaian diplomat
Matilda of Amboise (c. 1200 – 1256), French nobility
Matilda Amissah-Arthur, Second Lady of Ghana from 2012 to 2017
Matilda of Andechs (died 1245), German nobility
Matilda De Angelis (born 1995), Italian actress and singer
Matilda of Anjou, Duchess of Normandy in 1120
Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois (1224–1288), Flemish noblewoman
Matilda Aslizadeh, Canadian artist
Matilda Baffour Awuah, Ghanaian female security expert
Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846–1883), English physician
Matilda de Bailleul (c. 1132 – 1212), Flemish abbess
Matilda M. Barratt (1837–1902), American Mormon member
Matilda Black Bear (1947–2014), Lakota Sioux activist
Matilda Bedingfeld (1828–1905), British amateur artist
Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), English writer, poet and children's writer
Matilda of Béthune (died 1264), Countess consort of Flanders
Matilda Bickers, American artist, writer and sex worker rights activist
Matilda Ashurst Biggs (1818–1866), English women's rights activist
Matilda Ellen Bishop (1842–1913), British academic principal
Matilda Bogdanoff (born 1990), Finnish hurdler
Matilda Booker (1887–1957), African-American educator in Virginia
Matilda Boson (born 1981), Swedish handball player
Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England from 1135 to 1152
Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant (1170–1210), French noblewoman
Matilda de Braose (Deheubarth) (fl. 1240s), Welsh noblewoman
Matilda FitzRoy, Duchess of Brittany (fl. 12th century), Illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England
Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks (1888–1981), American cell biologist
Matilda Brown (born 1987), Australian actress
Matilda Browne (1869–1947), American painter
Matilda Auchincloss Brownell (1869–1966), American Impressionist painter and portraitist
Matilda Bruckner, American scholar of medieval French literature
Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1276–1318), German noblewoman
Matilda of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (c. 1210–1261), German duchess
Matilda of Carinthia, 12th-century Countess of Champagne
Matilda Gilruth Carpenter (1831–1923), American activist
Matilda Carse (1835–1917), Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer, publisher
Matilda Castren (born 1995), Finnish professional golfer
Matilda J. Clerk (1916–1984), Ghanaian physician and science educator
Matilda Cole, English musician and actress
Matilda Maranda Crawford (1844–1920), American poet
Matilda Cugler-Poni (1851–1931), Romanian poet
Matilda Cuomo (born 1931), Former First Lady of New York State
Matilda D'Oyly (fl. 1147), Saxon noblewoman
Matilda of Dammartin, Queen of Portugal from 1248 to 1253
Matilda of Dendermonde (died 1224), Flemish noblewoman
Matilda Djerf (born 1997), Swedish influencer and entrepreneur
Matilda Draper (born 2000), English television personality
Matilda T. Durham (1815–1901), American composer and hymn writer
Matilda Ridout Edgar (1844–1910), Canadian historian
Matilda Ekholm (born 1982), Swedish table tennis player
Matilda Ernkrans (born 1973), Swedish politician
Matilda Etches (1898–1974), British fashion and costume designer
Matilda Evans (1866–1935), African-American physician
Matilda Jane Evans (1827–1886), Australian novelist
Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031–1083), wife of William the Conqueror
Matilda of France (943–981/982), member of the Carolingian dynasty
Matilda of Franconia (c. 1027 – 1034), daughter of Emperor Conrad II
Matilda of Frisia (died 1044), wife of Henry I, King of the Franks
Matilda of Holstein (1220 or 1225–1288), Danish queen consort
Matilda of Habsburg (1253–1304), Duchess consort of Bavaria
Matilda of Požega (c. 1210 – after 1255), daughter of Margaret de Courtenay, wife of John Angelos of Syrmia
Matilda, Countess of Rethel (1091–1151), French noblewoman
Matilda of Ringelheim (c. 894–968), or Saint Matilda, a Saxon noblewoman
Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (1125–1158), first Portuguese queen-consort
Matilda of Savoy (1390–1498), Electress Palatine
Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080–1118), birth name Edith, wife of Henry I of England
Matilda of Tuscany (1046–1114), Countess of Tuscany (also called Mathilde or Matilde of Canossa)
Matilda Carse (1835–1917), Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer, publisher
Matilda Maranda Crawford (1844–1920), American-Canadian newspaper correspondent, writer, poet
Matilda Draper (born 2000}, English television personality
Matilda Caragiu Marioțeanu (1927–2009), Romanian linguist
Matilda McNamara (born 1998), Australian footballer
Matilda Newport, Liberian folk hero
Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1855–1915, née Evans), American ethnologist and author
Matilda Cugler-Poni (1851–1931), Romanian poet
Matilda Etches (1898–1974), British fashion designer
Matilda Ehringhaus (1890–1980), First Lady of North Carolina
Matilda Firth (born 2014), English actress
Matilda Freeman (born 2004), British actress
Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898), American feminist and freethinker
Matilda Rose Ledger (born 2005), daughter of actor Heath Ledger and actress Michelle Williams
Matilda Lowther (b. 1995), British fashion model
Matilda Penne (died 1393), English businessperson of the fourteenth century
Matilda Simon, 3rd Baroness Simon of Wythenshawe (born 1955), British transgender peer
Matilda Wirtavuori (born 2000), Finnish beauty pageant winner

Tilda

Tilda Cobham-Hervey (born 1994), Australian actress
Tilda Lindstam (born 1993), Swedish model
Tilda Löthman-Koponen (1874–1962), Finnish schoolteacher and politician
Tilda Norberg (born 1941), American minister, therapist and author
Tilda Swinton (born 1960), Scottish actress
Tilda Thamar (1921–1989), Argentine actress

Fictional characters

Matilda Wormwood, in Roald Dahl's novel Matilda
Matilda McDuck, a Disney character
Matilda Hunter, in the Australian soap opera Home and Away
Matilda Ajan, in Mobile Suit Gundam
Matilda Ashby, character on the America soap opera The Young and the Restless

References

↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.

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[ODFN-1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.