Hildr

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse hildr = 'battle, fight' (see HILD) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

     
Elda ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian Swedish
Hild ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Hilda ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Hildá ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Hilde ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Hilde ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Hilder ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Hildir ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Icelandic Old Norse
Hildr ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Old Norse
Hildur ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Hildura ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Hildure ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Hildus ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian

See also Hilding, Hildis, Hildor, HildungR, Hilla, Ilta

Combinations

For combinations see HILD (name element)

Further Information

Mythology

Hildr is the name of a Valkyrie. In Snorri's account of the battle Hjaðningavíg, night after night Hildr resurrects the warriors who have fallen in that day's combat so that they must go on fighting for ever. [3]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Denmark Denmark[5] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m0.png 0 n.a. 0 n.a
Sweden Sweden[6] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m0.png 0 0 0 0
Norway Norway[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m0.png 0 0 0 0
Finland Finland[8] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m0.png 0 0 0 0
  #: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hildr.

Sources: [6] [5] [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
  3. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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