Hilda

“Battle” — Old Norse origin

Girl's name · #3007 in the US (2025) · Heirloom

Hilda belongs to an older America first — it reached #87 back in 1899 — yet it still appears in today's records at #3007. About 81,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Around the world: #23 in Finland (Finnish-sp.) (2025) · #47 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #70 in Sweden (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 3 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Hildas

Hilda Heine — Marshallese politician
Hilda Solis — 25th United States Secretary of Labor
Hilda Geiringer — Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
Hilda Gadea — Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974
Hilda — Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England

In stories & tradition

Hilda Ogden — Coronation Street
Hilda Suarez — Ugly Betty
Hilda Spellman — Archie's Mad House · Sabrina the Teenage Witch

What Hildas become

Among 706 notable people named Hilda:

Artists & writers appear 1.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hilda Gadea, Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974.

Similar names: Ottilie · Ilah · Golda · Wesley · Ida · Adela

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