Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Hildr

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse hildr = 'battle', 'fight' (see HILD) (see also -r) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Elda ♀
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Helda ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Swedish
Hild ♀
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 Danish Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Hilda ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Hildá ♀
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 Sami
Hildah ♀
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 Swedish
Hilde ♀
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Hildi ♀
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 Finish Swedish
Hildr ♀
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 Old Norse
Hildur ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Hildura ♀
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Hildure ♀
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Hildy ♀
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Hilta ♀
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 Finish
Hiltu ♀
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Ilde ♀
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 Norwegian

See also Hildis, Hilla, Ildikó (Hungarian), Ilta

For male forms see *Heldiaz, Hildar, Hilde m, Hilding, Hildor, HildungR, Hildur m, Hildus

Combinations

For combinations see HILD (name element)

Further Information

Norse Mythology

  • Hildr is the name of a Valkyrie. In Snorri's account of the battle Hjaðningavíg, night after night Hildr resurrects the warriors who have fallen in that day's combat so that they must go on fighting for ever. [3]

Statistics

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name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
0 2 0 2 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
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n.a.
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n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
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n.a.
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n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hildr.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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