Girl · Hebrew
Huldah
Say it: HUL-duh
Meaning
Hebrew Ḥuldah, 'weasel' or 'mole'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in Puritan and 19th-century America; in Scandinavia Hulda is a separate Norse name.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 850 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1898, about 1 in 9,600 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hulda
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Famous bearers
- Huldah, prophetess in 2 Kings
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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