Hulda

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hulda is read●(measured from records)

Hulda is one spelling over 5 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.

• English52%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hulda in English.

• Finnish27%

  Huldah (biblical figure)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish16%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hulda in Spanish.

• Portuguese12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Hulda in Portuguese.

• Icelandic9.2%

  secrecy

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Hulda is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Houlda, Hülda

• Arabic given name9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Egypt, China

  Languages: Arabic, Czech, Finnish

  Also written Hülda

• Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India, Peru

  Also written Hülda

• Russian given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Хулда, Хульда, Khulda

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Hulda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• 1 Biblical name (meaning ‘weasel’ in Hebrew) borne by a prophetess who foretold to Josiah the destruction of Jerusalem (2 Kings 22). 2 Swedish: 18th-century derivation from the adjective huld sweet, lovable. The name has also been adopted in Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Variant (of 1): Huldah . Top

  as a word

• In Faroese, invisible ghost

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In goh, favour

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Skandināvu mitoloģijā - nāves dieviete, taču arī labklājības, zemes un mājas dieviete

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

• Hulda Lundinb. 1847SESwedish tailor, educator
• Hulda Garborgb. 1862NONorwegian writer and politician (1862–1934)
• Hulda Stumpfb. 1867USAmerican Christian missionary
• Hulda Floodb. 1886SESwedish politician (1886-1968)
• Carin Göringb. 1888SEnot in their usual nameSwedish wife of Hermann Göring
• Hulda Pankokb. 1895DEGerman journalist and publisher (1895-1985)
• Viola Sandellb. 1910SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician
• Hulda Gurewitzb. 1926ILIsraeli activist for disabled veterans (*1926)
• Hulda Regehr Clarkb. 1928CACanadian naturopath and practitioner of alternative medicine (1928–2009)
• Maria Kulleb. 1960SEnot 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)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hulda mean, and where does it come from?

Huldah (biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Hulda a male or female name?

Hulda 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.

What are other forms of the name Hulda?

In the etymology graph, Huldah and Chulda are forms of the same name in other languages.

In which country does Hulda have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Hulda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hulda.

Where is Hulda most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hulda is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 374 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Hulda?

In Sweden, the national register counted 1,610 people named Hulda, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.

How common is Hulda compared with other names?

In Iceland, Hulda is the 196th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.