Hilda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hilda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In English, recorded as Anglo-Saxon, probably ‘war’; not a common name in Ireland.
- PEPeru≈1 in 503(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 704
- ARArgentina≈1 in 776
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hilda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #996 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 503 (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglo-Saxon, probably ‘war’; not a common name in Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hilda is read(measured from records)
Hilda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish54%
Germánico; de Hildr, nombre de una valquiria, quizá ligado a hild ‘combate, batalla’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English26%
Anglo-Saxon, probably ‘war’; not a common name in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
A female given name from the Germanic languages used since Middle Ages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hilda in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #110 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 503 | — | Hilda | 71 |
| AR Argentina | #248 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 776 | 9 | Hilda | 82 |
| US United States | — | 54,736 | 1 in 6.1K | 55K | Hilda | 373 |
| BR Brazil | #370 | 37,896 | 1 in 5.6K | 46K | Hilda | 117 |
| VE Venezuela | #181 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | — | Hilda | 54 |
| EC Ecuador | #147 | 24,016 | 1 in 704 | 24K | Hilda | 39 |
| NO Norway | — | 17,762as Hilde | 1 in 308 | 58K | — | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hilda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Hilda är ett nordiskt och samgermanskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Hild(e)- och → -hild. Hilde är en dansk och norsk form. I den rikssvenska almanackan 18 januari och i den finlandssvenska 22 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Origine germanique, de la racine hild- «combat»; forme simple d’un ancien prénom féminin germanique.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Germanique, souvent rattaché à hild « combat ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Princess Hilda of Nassaub. 1864DEGrand Duchess of Baden (1864 - 1952)
- H.D.b. 1886USnot in their usual nameAmerican Imagist poet (1886–1961)
- Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourgb. 1894LUnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 to 1919
- Margaret Thatcherb. 1925GBnot in their usual nameBritish stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)
- Hilda Gadea Acostab. 1925PEPeruvian economist, Communist leader, and author, 1925-1974
- Virginia Bottomleyb. 1948GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1948)
- Joyce Bandab. 1950MWnot in their usual name4th President of Malawi
- Hilda Heineb. 1951MHMarshallese politician
- Hilda Solisb. 1957US25th United States Secretary of Labor
- Noomi Rapaceb. 1979SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 107 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 55K | #844 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 46K | #825 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 38K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38K | #695 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 24K | #86 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,302 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 523 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 179 | #695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98 | #844 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 55 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 9 | #2,175 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hilda mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglo-Saxon, probably ‘war’; not a common name in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Hilda a male or female name?
- Hilda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hilda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Hilda in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilda.
- What are other forms of the name Hilda?
- In the etymology graph, Nilda, Elda and Ilda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hilda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 54,736 people named Hilda in 2020, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Hilda compared with other names?
- In Peru, Hilda is the 110th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hilda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hildaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hilda” — the 110th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.