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| name          = Hilda
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| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɪ|l|d|ə}} {{respell|HIL|də}}
| gender        = Female
| meaning       = Battle
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| origin        = [[Hildr|Hild]]
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| related names = [[Hilde (given name)|Hilde]], [[Hildur]]
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'''Hilda'''  is one of several female [[given name]]s derived from the name ''Hild'', formed from [[Old Norse]] {{lang|non|hildr}}, meaning 'battle'. [[Hildr|Hild]], a Nordic-German [[Bellona (goddess)|Bellona]],<ref name="Schütz1837">{{cite book
|author=Heinrich Wilhelm Schütz
|title=Kleines Namen-Lexikon oder kurzgefasste Erklärungen der merkwürdigsten Orts- und Personennamen: mit Einschluss nicht weiniger Länder-, Völker-, Gebirgs- und Flussnamen
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DtzfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34
|year=1837
|publisher=Feister
|language=German
|pages=34–
|quote=Hild, nordisch-deutsche Bellona, dann auch Krieg überhaupt ...}}</ref> was a [[Valkyrie]] who conveyed fallen warriors to [[Valhalla]]. Warfare was often called Hild's Game.<ref>{{cite book
|title=Scandinavian Classics
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTFKAAAAYAAJ
|volume=27
|year=1927
|publisher=American Scandinavian Foundation
|page=303
|quote=Warfare and battle had numerous designations after the Valkyries; "Hild's Game" is especially common.}}</ref> The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century.<ref name="HanksHardcastle2006">{{cite book
|author1=Patrick Hanks
|author2=Kate Hardcastle
|author3=Flavia Hodges
|title=A Dictionary of First Names
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT224
|year=2006
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|isbn=978-0-19-861060-1
|pages=224–
|quote=The name all but died out by the 14th century. It was strongly revived in the 19th century. Since the 1930s, however, it has again fallen from favour.}}</ref> In Sweden it has been in use since the late 18th century, being a popular name throughout the 19th century. [[Hilde (given name)|Hilde]] is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on ''Hild'' is [[Hildur]].<ref name="ColemanVeka2010">{{cite book
|author1=Nancy L. Coleman
|author2=Olav Veka
|title=A Handbook of Scandinavian Names
|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780299248345
|url-access=registration
|date=9 December 2010
|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press
|isbn=978-0-299-24833-8
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780299248345/page/10 10]–}}</ref><ref name="Klintberg2014">{{cite book
|author=Bengt af Klintberg
|title=Namnen i almanackan
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERzXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT35
|date=30 January 2014
|publisher=Norstedts
|language=Swedish
|isbn=978-91-7297-039-7
|pages=35–}}</ref><ref name="Norman2003">{{cite book
|author=Teresa Norman
|title=World of Baby Names, A (Revised)
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AGlNUBjH70C&pg=PA498
|date=1 July 2003
|publisher=Penguin
|isbn=978-1-4406-2556-5
|pages=498–}}</ref>
'''Hilda''' is the name of:
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==People==
* [[Hilda of Whitby]] (c. 614-680), English saint
* [[Princess Hilda (disambiguation)]], various princesses
* [[Hilda Bernard]] (1920–2022), Argentine stage, screen and television actress
* [[Hilda Bernstein]] (1915–2006), author, artist, and anti-apartheid and women's rights activist
* [[Hilda Borgström]] (1871–1954), Swedish actress
* [[Hilda Bettermann]] (1942-2023), American politician
* [[Hilda Braid]] (1929–2007), English actress
* [[Hilda Mabel Canter]] (1922–2007), English mycologist, protozoologist, and photographer
* [[Hilda Caselli]] (1836-1901), Swedish educational reformer
* [[Hilda Clayton]] (1991-2013), American U.S. Army specialist and war photographer
* [[Hilda Conkling]] (1910–1986), American poet
*[[Hilda Dallas]] (1878–1958) and sister [[Irene Dallas]] (1883 -1971), British suffragettes
* [[Hilda Eisen]] (1917–2017), a Polish-born American businessperson, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor
* [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]] (1914–2006), English antiquarian and academic
* [[H. D.]] (1886–1961), born Hilda Doolittle, American poet, novelist and memoirist
* [[Hilda de Duhalde]] (born 1946), Argentine politician
* [[Hilda Fenemore]] (1914–2004), English actress
* [[Hilda Gadea]] (1921-1974), Peruvian economist, communist leader, author, and Che Guevara's first wife
* [[Hilda Gaxiola]] (born 1972), Mexican beach volleyball player
* [[Hilda Geiringer]] (1893–1973), Austrian mathematician and professor
* [[Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos)]] (1905–1998), American oil painter and watercolorist
* [[Hilda Kay Grant]] (1910-1996), Canadian writer and artist
* [[Hilda Habichayn]] (1934–2021), Argentine sociologist, created first master's program for women's studies in Latin America
* [[Hilda Hewlett]] (1864–1943), first British woman aviator to earn a pilot's licence, and aviation entrepreneur
* [[Hilda Heine]] (1951), Marshallese educator and politician
* [[Hilda Hilst]] (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
* [[Hilda Phoebe Hudson]] (1881-1965), English mathematician
* [[Hilda Jesser]] (1894 – 1985), Austrian artist and designer
* [[Hilda Käkikoski]] (1864-1912), Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher, one of the first nineteen women elected to parliament
* [[Hilda Kibet]] (born 1981), Dutch long distance runner
* [[Hilda Lovell-Smith]] (1886 - 1973), businesswoman and community organiser from New Zealand
* [[Hilda Lund]] (1840–1911), Swedish ballerina
* [[Hilda Molina]] (born 1942), chief neurosurgeon of Cuba and dissident
* [[Hilda Mundy]] (1912-1980), Bolivian writer, poet, journalist
* [[Hilda Rix Nicholas]] (1884-1961), Australian painter
* [[Hilda Petrini]] (1838–1895), Swedish clock maker
* [[Hilda Pinnix-Ragland]], American business executive
* [[H. F. M. Prescott]] (1896-1972), English author, academic and historian
* [[Hilda Ramos]] (born 1964), Cuban discus thrower
*[[Hilda Muhlhauser Richards]], American federal labor official
* [[Hilda Ross]] (1883-1959), New Zealand politician
* [[Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford]] (1869–1956), British politician
* [[Hilda Sachs]] (1857-1935), Swedish journalist and women's rights activist
* [[Hilda Sandels]] (1830-1921), Swedish opera singer
* [[Hilda Sjölin]] (1835–1915), Swedish photographer
* [[Hilda Solis]] (born 1957), United States Secretary of Labor in the Obama administration
* [[Hilda Crosby Standish]] (1902-2005), American birth control pioneer
* [[Hilda Svensson]] (born 2006), Swedish ice hockey player
* [[Hilda Tadria]], Ugandan women's rights activist
* [[Hilda Terry]] (1914–2006), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip ''Teena''
* [[Hilda Vīka]] (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer
* [[Hilda Woodward]] (1913–1999), British Musician
==Fictional characters==
* Hilda, title character in [[Luke Pearson]]'s ''[[Hilda (graphic novel series)|Hilda]]'' series
* Hilda, the 36th hero in ''[[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang]]''
* Hilda, the female protagonist of the video game [[Pokémon Black and White|''Pokémon Black'' and ''White'']]''
* Hilda, a minor character on the family television series ''[[The Muppet Show]]''
* Hilda or [[Hildegarde (Beelzebub)|Hildegarde (''Beelzebub'')]], a main character in the manga ''Beelzebub''
* [[Hilda (pinup girl)|Hilda]], a pinup girl created by [[Duane Bryers]]
* Hilda, the wife of Horace Rumpole, a character in the book and TV series ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]''
* Hilda Berg, an airplane boss who can shapeshift into a zeppelin from ''[[Cuphead]]''
* [[Dame Hilda Bracket]], half of the opera singing female impersonation act "Hinge and Bracket"
* [[Hilda Valentine Goneril]], a character from the video game ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]''
* Princess Hilda of Lorule, a character from the video game ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds]]''
* [[Hilda Ogden]], from the British soap opera ''Coronation Street''
* [[Hilda Spellman]], a main character in ''[[Sabrina, the Teenage Witch]]''
* [[Hilda Suarez]], from the American television series ''[[Ugly Betty]]''
* [["Hot Ice" Hilda]], a supporting character in the anime ''[[Outlaw Star]]''
* [[Polaris Hilda]], the main antagonist of the Asgard arc in the anime ''[[Saint Seiya]]''
==Space==
* [[153 Hilda]], a large asteroid in the [[Hilda group]] in the Solar System, named after one of the discoverer's daughters.
== See also ==
* [[Brunhilda (disambiguation)]]
* [[Hildebrand]]
* [[Hildegard]]
* [[Gunhild]]
* [[Krimhild]]
* [[Mathilde (name)|Mathilde]]
* [[St. Hilda's (disambiguation)]]
* ''[[Broom-Hilda]]'', U.S. newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers
* [[Hylda (disambiguation)]]
* [[Ildikó]]
==References==
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