Comments for HILDA:

Writer Hilda Doolittle was a bearer of this name.

-- alberto  1/18/2006

Though Hilda comes from the Germanic world "hild" (battle), a cognate is the Old Norse "hildr", with the same meaning.

-- alberto  1/18/2006

Saint Hilda was a 7th-century abbess in Whitby, England. Her feast is November 17.

-- alberto  1/18/2006

Hilda is Margaret Thatcher's middle name.

-- Anonymous User  3/31/2006

It's also used in Spanish. It's pronounced EE-lda, and spelled Ilda.

-- frangg23  4/23/2006

This is a pretty good name, the nickname Hildie is cute.

-- Anonymous User  7/11/2006

Hilda Conkling, the child poet, is another bearer of the name.

-- prisca  7/11/2006

I don't like this name at all. It makes me think of old ladies who are regulars of English church halls and cake-making experts.

It's also associated with the fictional gossip queen Hilda Ogden in the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties episodes of the northern English soap 'Coronation Street'.

-- freeserve.co.uk  3/3/2007

Also a feminine name in Slovenia.

-- earthnut  7/2/2007

I always thought it was short for "Mathilda". I guess it could be used for a variety of things.

-- susiejean  5/22/2008

It's hopelessly old-fashioned, and it rather makes me think of very old women who are either in a wheelchair or walk very slowly, in a bad position, with a stick, and need a hearing aid. Also, it makes me think of morbidly obese and ugly women with hideous perms.

-- slight night shiver  6/1/2008

Sounds like the name of a Viking lady.

-- number1212  6/3/2008

Hilda, the name, derived from Hildr, meaning "battle", was one of the valkyrie maiden goddesses in Norse mythology. Hildr is attested in the Prose Edda as Högni's daughter and Hedin's wife in the legend of Hedin and Högni. She had the power to revive the dead in battlefields and used it to maintain the everlasting battle between Hedin and Högni.

Hildr is also mentioned along with other valkyries in Völuspá, Darraðarljóð and other Old Norse poems. The Old Norse word hildr is a common noun meaning "battle" and it is not always clear when the poets had the valkyrie in mind, as a personification of battle. Also, I'd like to say this is a really nice name and it is a shame it is not used more often. :)

-- walesgal92  10/25/2009

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