Hildur

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Female Name

Usage

Icelandic
Faroese
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Icelandic and Faroese modern form of Hildr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

See Hildr

Name Days

Faroe Islands

18 January

Norway

18 January

Finland (Swedish Language)

22 February

Sweden

18 January

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Hildur
Accusative:	Hildi
Dative:	Hildi
Genitive:	Hildar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Hildur
Accusative:	Hildur / Hildi
Dative:	Hildur / Hildi
Genitive:	Hildar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1818 ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		914	2847	0	0
Norway[6]		629	1551	0	0
Denmark[7]		139	n.a.	5	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	1341	n.a	2
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi