Hilda

For other uses, see Hilda (disambiguation).

Hilda is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild, formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning 'battle'. Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona,^[1] was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game.^[2] The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century.^[3] In Sweden it has been in use since the late 18th century, being a popular name throughout the 19th century. Hilde is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on Hild is Hildur.^[4][5][6]

Hilda

Pronunciation	/ˈhɪldə/ HIL-də
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Hild
Meaning	Battle
Other names
Related names	Hilde, Hildur

Hilda is the name of:

People

• Hilda of Whitby (c. 614-680), English saint
• Princess Hilda (disambiguation), various princesses
• Hilda Bernard (1920–2022), Argentine stage, screen and television actress
• Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), author, artist, and anti-apartheid and women's rights activist
• Hilda Borgström (1871–1954), Swedish actress
• Hilda Bettermann (1942-2023), American politician
• Hilda Braid (1929–2007), English actress
• Hilda Mabel Canter (1922–2007), English mycologist, protozoologist, and photographer
• Hilda Caselli (1836-1901), Swedish educational reformer
• Hilda Clayton (1991-2013), American U.S. Army specialist and war photographer
• Hilda Conkling (1910–1986), American poet
• Hilda Dallas (1878–1958) and sister Irene Dallas (1883 -1971), British suffragettes
• Hilda Eisen (1917–2017), a Polish-born American businessperson, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor
• Hilda Ellis Davidson (1914–2006), English antiquarian and academic
• H. D. (1886–1961), born Hilda Doolittle, American poet, novelist and memoirist
• Hilda de Duhalde (born 1946), Argentine politician
• Hilda Fenemore (1914–2004), English actress
• Hilda Gadea (1921-1974), Peruvian economist, communist leader, author, and Che Guevara's first wife
• Hilda Gaxiola (born 1972), Mexican beach volleyball player
• Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian mathematician and professor
• Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) (1905–1998), American oil painter and watercolorist
• Hilda Kay Grant (1910-1996), Canadian writer and artist
• Hilda Habichayn (1934–2021), Argentine sociologist, created first master's program for women's studies in Latin America
• Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), first British woman aviator to earn a pilot's licence, and aviation entrepreneur
• Hilda Heine (1951), Marshallese educator and politician
• Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
• Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881-1965), English mathematician
• Hilda Jesser (1894 – 1985), Austrian artist and designer
• Hilda Käkikoski (1864-1912), Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher, one of the first nineteen women elected to parliament
• Hilda Kibet (born 1981), Dutch long distance runner
• Hilda Lovell-Smith (1886 - 1973), businesswoman and community organiser from New Zealand
• Hilda Lund (1840–1911), Swedish ballerina
• Hilda Molina (born 1942), chief neurosurgeon of Cuba and dissident
• Hilda Mundy (1912-1980), Bolivian writer, poet, journalist
• Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961), Australian painter
• Hilda Petrini (1838–1895), Swedish clock maker
• Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, American business executive
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), English author, academic and historian
• Hilda Ramos (born 1964), Cuban discus thrower
• Hilda Muhlhauser Richards, American federal labor official
• Hilda Ross (1883-1959), New Zealand politician
• Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (1869–1956), British politician
• Hilda Sachs (1857-1935), Swedish journalist and women's rights activist
• Hilda Sandels (1830-1921), Swedish opera singer
• Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915), Swedish photographer
• Hilda Solis (born 1957), United States Secretary of Labor in the Obama administration
• Hilda Crosby Standish (1902-2005), American birth control pioneer
• Hilda Svensson (born 2006), Swedish ice hockey player
• Hilda Tadria, Ugandan women's rights activist
• Hilda Terry (1914–2006), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Teena
• Hilda Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer

Fictional characters

• Hilda, title character in Luke Pearson's Hilda series
• Hilda, the 36th hero in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Hilda, the female protagonist of the video game Pokémon Black and White
• Hilda, a minor character on the family television series The Muppet Show
• Hilda or Hildegarde (Beelzebub), a main character in the manga Beelzebub
• Hilda, a pinup girl created by Duane Bryers
• Hilda, the wife of Horace Rumpole, a character in the book and TV series Rumpole of the Bailey
• Hilda Berg, an airplane boss who can shapeshift into a zeppelin from Cuphead
• Dame Hilda Bracket, half of the opera singing female impersonation act "Hinge and Bracket"
• Hilda Valentine Goneril, a character from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Princess Hilda of Lorule, a character from the video game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Hilda Ogden, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Hilda Spellman, a main character in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
• Hilda Suarez, from the American television series Ugly Betty
• "Hot Ice" Hilda, a supporting character in the anime Outlaw Star
• Polaris Hilda, the main antagonist of the Asgard arc in the anime Saint Seiya

Space

• 153 Hilda, a large asteroid in the Hilda group in the Solar System, named after one of the discoverer's daughters.

See also

• Brunhilda (disambiguation)
• Hildebrand
• Hildegard
• Gunhild
• Krimhild
• Mathilde
• St. Hilda's (disambiguation)
• Broom-Hilda, U.S. newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers
• Hylda (disambiguation)
• Ildikó

References

1. Heinrich Wilhelm Schütz (1837). Kleines Namen-Lexikon oder kurzgefasste Erklärungen der merkwürdigsten Orts- und Personennamen: mit Einschluss nicht weiniger Länder-, Völker-, Gebirgs- und Flussnamen (in German). Feister. pp. 34–. Hild, nordisch-deutsche Bellona, dann auch Krieg überhaupt ...
2. Scandinavian Classics. Vol. 27. American Scandinavian Foundation. 1927. p. 303. Warfare and battle had numerous designations after the Valkyries; "Hild's Game" is especially common.
3. Patrick Hanks; Kate Hardcastle; Flavia Hodges (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. The name all but died out by the 14th century. It was strongly revived in the 19th century. Since the 1930s, however, it has again fallen from favour.
4. Nancy L. Coleman; Olav Veka (9 December 2010). A Handbook of Scandinavian Names. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-0-299-24833-8.
5. Bengt af Klintberg (30 January 2014). Namnen i almanackan (in Swedish). Norstedts. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-91-7297-039-7.
6. Teresa Norman (1 July 2003). World of Baby Names, A (Revised). Penguin. pp. 498–. ISBN 978-1-4406-2556-5.