Hilda (pronounced HIL-də) is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild, formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning "battle". Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century. In Sweden it has been in use since the late 18th century, being a popular name throughout the 19th century. Hilde is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on Hild is Hildur.
Hilda is the name of:
Hilda of Whitby (c. 614-680), English saint
Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864–1952)
Hilda Bernard (born 1920), Argentine stage, screen and television actress
Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), author, artist and activist against apartheid and for women's rights
Hilda Borgström (1871–1954), Swedish actress
Hilda Braid (1929–2007), English actress
Hilda Caselli (1836-1901), Swedish educational reformer
Hilda Conkling (1910–1986), American poet
Hilda Ellis Davidson (1914–2006), English antiquarian and academic
H. D. (1886–1961), born Hilda Doolittle, American poet, novelist and memoirist
Hilda de Duhalde (born 1946), Argentine politician
Hilda Fenemore (1914–2004), English actress
Hilda Gadea (1921-1974), Peruvian economist, communist leader, author and Che Guevara's first wife
Hilda Gaxiola (born 1972), Mexican beach volleyball player
Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian mathematician and professor
Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) (1905–1998), American oil painter and watercolorist
Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), first British woman aviator to earn a pilot's licence, and aviation entrepreneur
Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881-1965), English mathematician
Hilda Käkikoski (1864-1912), Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher, one of the first nineteen women elected to the Finnish parliament
Hilda Kibet (born 1981), Dutch long distance runner
Hilda Lund (1840–1911), Swedish ballerina
Hilda Molina (born 1942), former chief neurosurgeon of Cuba and dissident
Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961), Australian painter
Hilda Petrini (1838–1895), Swedish clock maker
H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), English author, academic and historian
Hilda Ramos (born 1964), Cuban retired discus thrower
Hilda Ross (1883-1959), New Zealand politician
Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (1869–1956), British politician
Hilda Sachs (1857-1935), Swedish journalist and women's rights activist
Hilda Sandels (1830-1921), Swedish opera singer
Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915), Swedish photographer
Hilda Solis (born 1957), United States Secretary of Labor in the Obama administration
Hilda Crosby Standish (1902-2005), American pioneer in the birth control movement
Hilda Terry (1914–2006), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Teena
Dame Hilda Bracket, half of the opera singing female impersonation act "Hinge and Bracket".
Hilda Ogden, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
Hilda Spellman, a main character in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Hilda Suarez, from the American television series Ugly Betty
"Hot Ice" Hilda, a supporting character in the anime Outlaw Star
Hilda or Hildegarde (Beelzebub), a main character in the manga Beelzebub
Hilda, the female protagonist of Pokémon Black and White
Polaris Hilda, the main antagonist of the Asgard arc in the anime Saint Seiya
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