About the name Gilda
Gilda belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Gilda first appears in Social Security records in 1898. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #381 in 1927, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 10,077 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.