Hildegarde

Where Hildegarde comes from

The dictionaries list Hildegarde as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Hildegard — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #793 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1901
    Hildegarde Howard born
    American paleornithologist
  3. 1901
    Peak, #559
    30 babies named Hildegarde — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1906
    Hildegarde born
    American singer
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,511.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Hildegard.
Namesakes
  • Hildegarde Howard · American paleornithologist, 1901–1998
  • Hildegarde · American singer, 1906–2005
  • Hildegarde Naughton · Irish Politician, born 1977
  • Hildegarde Hoyt Swift · American children's book author, 1890–1972
  • Hildegarde Neil · British actress, 1939–2023

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.