Girl · Uncertain
Casilda
Say it: kah-SEEL-dah
Meaning
Uncertain. Arabic and Germanic origins have both been proposed; none is established.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Kept in occasional use by devotion to the saint, venerated near Briviesca in Burgos.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 161 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 1922, about 1 in 150,100 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Saint Casilda of Toledo, said in legend to be the daughter of a Muslim ruler
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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