Hilda

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Hildr and short form of names containing the name element HILD (see also -a)

Related Names

See Hildr

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hilduson

Female

Hildudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Hilda
Genitive:	Hildas

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

- Finnish
Nominative:	Hilda
Genitive:	Hildan
Partitive:	Hildaa

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

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Hilda
Genitive:	Hildas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Hilda
Genitive:	Hildas

Name Days

Finland

22 February

Norway

15 December

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 February

Sweden

18 January

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 14th century
• Sweden: 1796
• Denmark: 18th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1909
  • 2000-
• Denmark:
  • -1920
  • 1900-1950
• Norway:
  • 1900-1905

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Vestjylland
• Sweden:
  • Norrbotten (19th century) see map
  • Blekinge (19th century) see map
  • Östergötland (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map
  • Öland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Hilda Catharina Petrini (9 October 1838 – 30 January 1895), Swedish watchmaker and first female master of mechanic in Sweden
• Hilda Carolina Ericsson (née Simonsson, 3 August 1860 - 3 January 1941), Swedish founder of the telecommunications company Ericsson together with her husband Lars Magnus Ericsson

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Finland		n.a.	23399	n.a.	23392	n.a.	7
Sweden		4455	8246	4449	8239	6	7
Denmark		524	n.a.	524	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		36	153	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		51	66	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		611	n.a.	611	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Hilda (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.