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English
Etymology
Short form of Germanic names beginning or ending in hild (“battle”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda
- A female given name from the Germanic languages used since Middle Ages.
- St Hilda of Whitby
Translations
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English Hilda, from Germanic.
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name from English
Danish
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Estonian
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Faroese
Proper noun
Hilda f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Hilda: Hilduson
- daughter of Hilda: Hildudóttir
Declension
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singular
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indefinite
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nominative
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Hilda
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accusative
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Hildu
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dative
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Hildu
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genitive
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Hildu
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Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish Hilda, German Hilda.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Declension
Statistics
- Hilda is the 231st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,412 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,521 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Icelandic
Proper noun
Hilda f (proper noun, genitive singular Hildu)
- a female given name
Declension
Declension of Hilda (sg-only feminine)
Norwegian
Proper noun
Hilda
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hilda.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda f
- a female given name from German, equivalent to English Hilda
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Hilda.
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hȉlda m (Cyrillic spelling Хи̏лда)
- a female given name
Declension
Further reading
- “Hilda”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda f (genitive singular Hildy, nominative plural Hildy, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Hilda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Spanish
Proper noun
Hilda f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Swedish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda c (genitive Hildas)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Hilda
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English Hilda.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hilda (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜎ᜔ᜇ)
- a female given name from English
Anagrams