Hulda

Where Hulda comes from

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

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1862
    Hulda Garborg born
    Norwegian writer and politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #198 among girls — 60 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #171
    113 babies named Hulda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,097.
  5. 1928
    Hulda Regehr Clark born
    Canadian naturopath and practitioner of alternative medicine
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Huldah.
Namesakes
  • Hulda Garborg · Norwegian writer and politician, 1862–1934
  • Hulda Regehr Clark · Canadian naturopath and practitioner of alternative medicine, 1928–2009
  • Hulda Swai · researcher, born 1954
  • Hulda Stumpf · American Christian missionary, 1867–1930
  • Hulda Lundin · Swedish tailor, educator, 1847–1921

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.