Comments for the name Hilda

Writer Hilda Doolittle was a bearer of this name.

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

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

Hilda is Margaret Thatcher's middle name.

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

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

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

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'.

Also a feminine name in Slovenia.

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

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.

Sounds like the name of a Viking lady.

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. :)

I bet I'm the only person in the US that knows two people named Hilda ;)
My mom is named Hilda but she hates it and goes by her middle name instead. My good friend is named Hildie and she doesn't mind the name.
I think "Hildie" is cute and more modern-sounding than Hilda. But either way it's a pretty unique name!

I just find this hopelessly "old stick-y".

This is the name of Caroline Rhea's character in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

I don't find it an old lady name. If anything, I think of a teenage feminist when I hear it, which is a positive thing in my head. I personally might use it as a middle name.

Hilda is the heroine's name from Pokemon Black and White.

This name reminds me of an old lady who is really weird and walks around selling muffins to little children outside churches.