Hildur
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hildur is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iceland. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, variant of Hilda.
- ISIceland1 in 224◐
- NONorway1 in 9.5K
- FIFinland1 in 18K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
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●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 9,508 | 44% |
| FI Finland | 4,319 | 20% |
| US United States | 4,028 | 19% |
| NO Norway | 2,526 | 12% |
| DK Denmark | 518 | 2% |
≈20,899 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic9.8K45%
- Finnish4.3K20%
- English3K14%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.1K10%
- Danish6103%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 9,783 | 45% |
| Finnish | 4,332 | 20% |
| English | 3,009 | 14% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,122 | 10% |
| Danish | 610 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1885 | 9 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1888 | 5 |
| 1889 | 8 |
| 1890 | 11 |
| 1891 | 20 |
| 1892 | 20 |
| 1893 | 23 |
| 1894 | 18 |
| 1895 | 30 |
| 1896 | 16 |
| 1897 | 27 |
| 1898 | 19 |
| 1899 | 24 |
| 1900 | 18 |
| 1901 | 16 |
| 1902 | 18 |
| 1903 | 12 |
| 1904 | 20 |
| 1905 | 15 |
| 1906 | 14 |
| 1907 | 20 |
| 1908 | 14 |
| 1909 | 9 |
| 1910 | 15 |
| 1911 | 15 |
| 1912 | 26 |
| 1913 | 22 |
| 1914 | 23 |
| 1915 | 32 |
| 1916 | 32 |
| 1917 | 23 |
| 1918 | 27 |
| 1919 | 18 |
| 1920 | 15 |
| 1921 | 21 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 9 |
| 1926 | 10 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1933 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1885–1933. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 24 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 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.7K | #55 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 1.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 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 | #1,329 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 246 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hildur?
- Our records include 20,899 bearers of Hildur across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Hildur have the most bearers?
- Hildur is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- 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.
- What does the name Hildur mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, variant of Hilda
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hildur”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.