Hildur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, variant of Hilda
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ajɫdʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hildur is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ISIceland
- NONorway
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, variant of Hilda
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Hildur is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Hildur är en nyisländsk form av det äldre Hildr, identiskt med hildr ’strid’ (→ Hild-, -hild). Namnet blev känt i Sverige genom Esaias Tegnérs Frithiofs saga (1825) och blev ett modenamn på 1800-talet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 18 januari och i den finlandssvenska 22 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Hildur Carlbergb. 1843SESwedish actress (1843–1920)
- Hildur Schirmerb. 1856NONorwegian singer and musicologist (1856-1914)
- Hildur Andersenb. 1864NONorwegian musician
- Hildur Nygrenb. 1896SESwedish politician (1896-1962)
- Hildur Krogb. 1922NONorwegian botanist (1922-2014)
- Alice Babsb. 1924SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actor (1924-2014)
- Hjördis Levinb. 1930SEnot in their usual nameSwedish historian, author
- Hildur Guðnadóttirb. 1982ISIcelandic musician and composer
- Hildur Vala Einarsdóttirb. 1982ISIcelandic singer
- Hildur Antonsdóttirb. 1995ISIcelandic association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 2.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 2.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 2.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.1K | #1,031 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,142 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.5K | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.5K | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.5K | #14 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.4K | #667 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Hildur mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, variant of Hilda Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hildur a male or female name?
- Hildur 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.
- How do you pronounce Hildur?
- A machine transcription gives /ajɫdʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Hildur?
- In the etymology graph, Hilda, Elda and Ilda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hildur have the most bearers?
- Hildur is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hildur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hildurThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hildur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.