Hildur

Where Hildur comes from

Hildur hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1864
    Hildur Andersen born
    Norwegian musician
  2. 1885
    First appearance
    #745 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1895
    Peak, #538
    30 babies named Hildur — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,027.
  5. 1982
    Hildur Guðnadóttir born
    Icelandic musician and composer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir · Icelandic musician and composer, born 1982
  • Hildur Andersen · Norwegian musician, 1864–1956
  • Hildur Krog · Norwegian botanist, 1922–2014
  • Hildur Antonsdóttir · Icelandic association football player, born 1995
  • Hildur Schirmer · Norwegian singer and musicologist, 1856–1914

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.