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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Danish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Norse hulda = 'hiding', 'secrecy' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) Swedish and Danish huld = 'lovely', 'delightful', 'mild' (deriving from Old Norse hollr = 'faithful', 'loyal', 'gracious') [3] [6] [7] [8] [5] [9] [10] [11]
3) Short form of Huldrika [3]
4) Hebrew חוּלְדָה (chuldah) = 'weasel' [7] [8] [5] [10] [11]
See also -a
Related Names
See also Ulla
Male
Hulduson
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Female
Huldudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see HULD (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Genitive: |
Huldas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Accusative: |
Huldu
|
Dative: |
Huldu
|
Genitive: |
Huldu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Genitive: |
Huldan
|
Partitive: |
Huldaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Accusative: |
Huldu
|
Dative: |
Huldu
|
Genitive: |
Huldu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Genitive: |
Huldas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Hulda
|
Genitive: |
Huldas
|
Name Days
Norway
|
7 July
|
Sweden
|
8 September
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Norse Mythology
Namesakes
- Hulda Garborg (née Bergersen, 22 February 1862 – 5 November 1934), Norwegian writer,
- Hulda Dagny Lütken (5 October 1896 - 9 July 1946), Danish writer and poet
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Finland[15] |
|
n.a. |
6211 |
n.a. |
6211 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[16] |
|
1000 |
1354 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[17] |
|
441 |
1735 |
441 |
1735 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[18] |
|
63 |
n.a. |
63 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[19] |
|
3 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[20] |
|
256 |
n.a. |
256 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [17][18][20][15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Hulda (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no