Girl · Germanic
Hilda
Say it: HIL-duh
Meaning
Short form of names containing Germanic hild 'battle'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Revived in Victorian England and in Germany around 1900.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 80,930 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1903, about 1 in 375 girls
- 45 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hilde
| German | Hilde |
|---|---|
| Swedish | Hilda |
| Spanish | Hilda |
| Norwegian | Hilde |
Famous bearers
- Saint Hilda of Whitby, Anglo-Saxon abbess
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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