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Nordic Names

Hulda

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Denmark Danish
Greenland 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

Hulð ♀
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 Old Norse
Huld ♀
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 Icelandic Old Norse Swedish
Hulda ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Huldar ♂
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 Icelandic
Huldr ♂
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 Old Norse
Hulra ♀
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 Finish
Hulta ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Hulti ♀
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 Finish
Hultu ♀
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 Finish
Hultukka ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Ulla

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hulduson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Huldudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see HULD (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hulda
Genitive: Huldas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Hulda
Accusative: Huldu
Dative: Huldu
Genitive: Huldu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hulda
Genitive: Huldan
Partitive: Huldaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hulda
Accusative: Huldu
Dative: Huldu
Genitive: Huldu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hulda
Genitive: Huldas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hulda
Genitive: Huldas

Name Days

Norway Norway

7 July

Sweden 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

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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 Finland[15]
n.a.
 6211
n.a.
 6211 0 0
Iceland Iceland[16]
1000 1354
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[17]
441 1735 441 1735 0 0
Denmark Denmark[18]
63
n.a.
 63
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[19]
3 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway 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

Name statistics for Hulda (f) Sources: [17][18][20][15]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Hulda (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Hulda (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Hulda (f)


References

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  2. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  12. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  13. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  19. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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