Meaning and history
Clotilde is the French form of Chrodechildis, the Latin form of a Frankish name made from hruod “fame, glory” and hilt “battle.” Saint Clotilde, recorded in Latin sources as Chrodechildis or Chrotchildis, was the wife of the Frankish king Clovis, whom she converted to Christianity, and the name was also used by other members of the Merovingian royal family. In the Middle Ages it was sometimes confused with Chlodechilda, whose first element is hlut “famous, loud.”
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20152015: 5 births, rank #16,419
Clotilde moved from #846 to #961 for girls between 1886 and 1889. Its highest annual birth count came in 1885, with 13 births.