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Hilda
Pronounced /ˈhɪldə/
Rank in 2024
#3,058
Born in 2024
53
Peak year
1921 · #123
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 53 girls were named Hilda, about 1 in every 30,438.
- It peaked in 1921 with 2,128 babies, ranked #123.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 80,965 girls have been named Hilda since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Hilda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.8Greatest1901–27
- 0.8Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 37,077 babies, 1.81 per 1,000. Silent: 16,866 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,466 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,330 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,695 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,301 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 555 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Short form of Germanic names beginning or ending in hild (“battle”).
- A female given name from the Germanic languages used since Middle Ages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈhɪldə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Hilda, CC BY-SA 4.0.