Meanings
- A female given name from French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish, of rare usage.
Miss Clotilde Graves, playwright and novelist, who was better known by her pen name, Richard Dehan, died at the Convent of Lourdes at Hatch End, Middlesex, after a long illness at the age of 69.
1932 December 5, “Miss Clotilde Graves, Author, Dies at 69 […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Palmer of Larchmont, N. Y., formerly of Tarrytown, have announced the engagement of their daughters,^([sic]) Miss Clotilde Sayre Palmer, to Edward Everett Baker, son of Mrs, Edward E. Baker of Mamaroneck, N. Y., and the late Mr. Baker.
1938 December 11, “Clotilde Palmer to Wed […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLCMiss Clotilde Elizabeth Phalen of 215 East Seventy-third Street, a former art teacher in the Evening High School of Staten Island, died Wednesday in Post-Graduate Hospital after an illness of several weeks.
1941 December 27, “Miss Clotilde E. Phalen”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*Hlūdahildiz
- French, Italian, Portuguese, and SpanishClotilde
- EnglishClotilde
From French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Clotilde, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdahildiz.
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Clotilde. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Clotilde
“Clotilde.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Clotilde. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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