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Hilda

“Battle” — Old Norse origin

Girl's name · #2998 in the US (2025) · Vintage

Hilda has appeared in US records since 1880 — best rank #87 (1899) · 81,022 babies named Hilda all-time · 1 in 33,000 girls born in 2025.

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 705 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.

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