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Girl · Old Norse
Hilde
Say it: HIL-deh
Meaning
From Old Norse hildr 'battle', also a short form of names ending in -hild.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Hildr is a valkyrie name in Norse myth; Hilde was a common Norwegian name in the 20th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 316 babies given this name since 1916
- At its height in 1929, about 1 in 111,700 girls
- 11 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- 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: Hilda
| Old Norse | Hildr |
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Famous bearers
- Hildr, valkyrie of the legend of the endless battle (Hjaðningavíg)
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.