Hilda

Where Hilda comes from

Short form of Germanic names beginning or ending in hild (“battle”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hilda
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #198 among girls — 60 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #87
    621 babies named Hilda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1951
    Hilda Heine born
    Marshallese politician
  4. 1957
    Hilda Solis born
    American politician
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #555.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages used since Middle Ages.
Namesakes
  • Hilda Heine · Marshallese politician, born 1951
  • Hilda Solis · American politician, born 1957
  • Hilda Geiringer · Austrian mathematician, 1893–1973
  • Hilda Gadea · Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974, 1925–1974
  • Hilda · Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England, 614–680

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.