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\ʒil.da\ · French
01 / Meaning & origin
Gildas is a masculine given name documented in English, French and Welsh.
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: GILDAS
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
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| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 549 | rounded |
| 1901 | 5 | 547 | rounded |
| 1902 | 5 | 731 | rounded |
| 1903 | 5 | 527 | rounded |
| 1904 | 10 | 440 | rounded |
| 1905 | 10 | 425 | rounded |
| 1906 | 5 | 562 | rounded |
| 1907 | 5 | 536 | rounded |
| 1908 | 5 | 526 | rounded |
| 1909 | 10 | 442 | rounded |
| 1910 | 10 | 421 | rounded |
| 1911 | 5 | 499 | rounded |
| 1912 | 10 | 409 | rounded |
| 1913 | 10 | 455 | rounded |
| 1914 | 10 | 394 | rounded |
| 1915 | 10 | 377 | rounded |
| 1916 | 5 | 555 | rounded |
| 1917 | 10 | 337 | rounded |
| 1918 | 5 | 434 | rounded |
| 1919 | 10 | 356 | rounded |
| 1920 | 10 | 447 | rounded |
| 1921 | 10 | 430 | rounded |
| 1922 | 10 | 432 | rounded |
| 1923 | 10 | 401 | rounded |
| 1924 | 15 | 347 | rounded |
| 1925 | 15 | 426 | rounded |
| 1926 | 5 | 840 | rounded |
| 1927 | 10 | 508 | rounded |
| 1928 | 15 | 399 | rounded |
| 1929 | 15 | 388 | rounded |
| 1930 | 20 | 360 | rounded |
| 1931 | 15 | 407 | rounded |
| 1932 | 25 | 298 | rounded |
| 1933 | 20 | 308 | rounded |
| 1934 | 30 | 245 | rounded |
| 1935 | 25 | 259 | rounded |
| 1936 | 45 | 209 | rounded |
| 1937 | 30 | 246 | rounded |
| 1938 | 25 | 252 | rounded |
| 1939 | 40 | 206 | rounded |
| 1940 | 35 | 212 | rounded |
| 1941 | 15 | 303 | rounded |
| 1942 | 30 | 230 | rounded |
| 1943 | 30 | 226 | rounded |
| 1944 | 40 | 207 | rounded |
| 1945 | 40 | 196 | rounded |
| 1946 | 50 | 201 | rounded |
| 1947 | 75 | 169 | rounded |
| 1948 | 75 | 172 | rounded |
| 1949 | 85 | 165 | rounded |
| 1950 | 95 | 162 | rounded |
| 1951 | 105 | 154 | rounded |
| 1952 | 90 | 162 | rounded |
| 1953 | 75 | 181 | rounded |
| 1954 | 120 | 150 | rounded |
| 1955 | 160 | 136 | rounded |
| 1956 | 145 | 143 | rounded |
| 1957 | 145 | 148 | rounded |
| 1958 | 125 | 163 | rounded |
| 1959 | 130 | 165 | rounded |
| 1960 | 140 | 162 | rounded |
| 1961 | 125 | 177 | rounded |
| 1962 | 140 | 167 | rounded |
| 1963 | 160 | 165 | rounded |
| 1964 | 135 | 180 | rounded |
| 1965 | 130 | 182 | rounded |
| 1966 | 120 | 198 | rounded |
| 1967 | 150 | 185 | rounded |
| 1968 | 135 | 202 | rounded |
| 1969 | 160 | 196 | rounded |
| 1970 | 180 | 196 | rounded |
| 1971 | 205 | 197 | rounded |
| 1972 | 265 | 182 | rounded |
| 1973 | 290 | 177 | rounded |
| 1974 | 255 | 191 | rounded |
| 1975 | 215 | 200 | rounded |
| 1976 | 230 | 190 | rounded |
| 1977 | 195 | 206 | rounded |
| 1978 | 205 | 203 | rounded |
| 1979 | 200 | 210 | rounded |
| 1980 | 195 | 221 | rounded |
| 1981 | 190 | 223 | rounded |
| 1982 | 145 | 267 | rounded |
| 1983 | 135 | 265 | rounded |
| 1984 | 125 | 283 | rounded |
| 1985 | 95 | 337 | rounded |
| 1986 | 115 | 310 | rounded |
| 1987 | 105 | 324 | rounded |
| 1988 | 85 | 370 | rounded |
| 1989 | 70 | 419 | rounded |
| 1990 | 65 | 453 | rounded |
| 1991 | 60 | 477 | rounded |
| 1992 | 50 | 534 | rounded |
| 1993 | 40 | 631 | rounded |
| 1994 | 45 | 583 | rounded |
| 1995 | 40 | 622 | rounded |
| 1996 | 35 | 680 | rounded |
| 1997 | 45 | 627 | rounded |
| 1998 | 25 | 873 | rounded |
| 1999 | 30 | 799 | rounded |
| 2000 | 20 | 1,053 | rounded |
| 2001 | 25 | 986 | rounded |
| 2002 | 30 | 942 | rounded |
| 2003 | 35 | 895 | rounded |
| 2004 | 35 | 913 | rounded |
| 2005 | 30 | 1,065 | rounded |
| 2006 | 25 | 1,141 | rounded |
| 2007 | 15 | 1,561 | rounded |
| 2008 | 15 | 1,832 | rounded |
| 2009 | 10 | 2,383 | rounded |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,453 | rounded |
| 2011 | 15 | 1,986 | rounded |
| 2012 | 15 | 2,107 | rounded |
| 2013 | 10 | 3,081 | rounded |
| 2014 | 5 | 6,020 | rounded |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,333 | rounded |
| 2018 | 5 | 4,516 | rounded |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | 5 | 5,707 | rounded |
| 2021 | 5 | 4,095 | rounded |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | 5 | 5,813 | rounded |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “GILDAS” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Gildas— “servant of God”
Maelgwn, or Maelgwas, was his successor in Powys and Gwynned, and is desperately abused by the indignant Gildas for all manner of crimes; while even Taliessin, who praises his beauty, rebukes his licentiousness. Three centuries later, a bard alleges that he hid himself in a wood, waylaid and carried off the wife of King Arthur. In the twelfth century, Caradoc, abbot of Llancarven, adds that Arthur besieged him in his castle, and had challenged him to single combat, when the…
Maelgwn, or Maelgwas, was his successor in Powys and Gwynned, and is desperately abused by the indignant Gildas for all manner of crimes; while even Taliessin, who praises his beauty, rebukes his licentiousness. Three centuries later, a bard alleges that he hid himself in a wood, waylaid and carried off the wife of King Arthur. In the twelfth century, Caradoc, abbot of Llancarven, adds that Arthur besieged him in his castle, and had challenged him to single combat, when the sage Gildas and the abbot of Glastonbury interposed, and obtained the lady’s restoration. Walter of Oxford adds that this Maelgwn reigned after King Arthur, and finally died of terror in a convent, having seen the Yellow Spectre, namely the plague, through the chinks of the church door. Dr. Owen Pugh further tells us, that Jack-in-the-Green, on May-day, was once a pageant representing Melva, or Melvas, king of the country now called Somersetshire, disguised in green boughs, as he lay in ambush to steal King Arthur’s wife as she went out hunting.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter III (Gaelic Names), Section XII (Devotional Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
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