Hilda

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Hildr and short form of names containing the name element HILD ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Hildr

Name Days

Finland

22 February

Norway

15 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 February

Sweden

18 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Hilda
Accusative:	Hildu
Dative:	Hildu
Genitive:	Hildu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Hilda
Accusative:	Hildu
Dative:	Hildu
Genitive:	Hildu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1796 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		3321	6770	0	0
Denmark[6]		835	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		341	876	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	21390	n.a	9
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[5][6][7][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
3. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi