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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
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Origin and Meaning
1) Female form of Hilmar (see Hildimar) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) German variant form of Helma [1] [2] [6] [4] [5]
3) German short form of Old High German combinations of the first name element HILD and any name element beginning with M, e.g. Hildimod [6]
4) German short form of Old High German names beginning with Himil- (see HIMIN), e. g. Himildrud
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Related Names
See also Hilmar
Male
Hilmuson
|
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Female
Hilmudóttir
|
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Genitive: |
Hilmas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Accusative: |
Hilmu
|
Dative: |
Hilmu
|
Genitive: |
Hilmu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Genitive: |
Hilman
|
Partitive: |
Hilmaa
|
- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Accusative: |
Hilmu
|
Dative: |
Hilmu
|
Genitive: |
Hilmu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Genitive: |
Hilmas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Hilma
|
Genitive: |
Hilmas
|
Name Days
Finland
|
21 November
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
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21 November
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Hilma af Klint (26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944), Swedish artist and mystic
- Hilma Johanna Ulrika Borelius (18 December 1869 - 28 January 1932), Swedish literary historian
- Hilma Svedal (née Wounsch, 2 October 1870 – 2 July 1965), Swedish-American gold prospector
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
27096 |
n.a. |
27090 |
n.a. |
6 |
Sweden[9] |
|
2651 |
5367 |
2651 |
5367 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[12] |
|
34 |
43 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Denmark[13] |
|
49 |
n.a. |
49 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[14] |
|
163 |
n.a. |
163 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[15] |
|
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][13][14][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Hilma (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables