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Hildur

Girls' name

Form of Hildr

Hildur has been given to 718 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Hildur, 1933

1 in 333,000

Hildur over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hildur: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hildr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hildur means

Hildur is a form of Hildr.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hildur is used in Icelandic and Norwegian.

Origin, language, and formation

Hildur is used in Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hildr and Hilda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Hildur is pronounced /ˈhɪltʊɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 718 girls were recorded with the name Hildur between 1885 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1915; its best national rank was #542 in 1895.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hildur?

Hildur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1933, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1933
1 in 333,000
6 of 1,999,415 births
Among girls only
1 in 168,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1933
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
230,983 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hildur sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1933 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 230,983 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hildur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hildurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hildur was born before 1907 — so the typical Hildur is around 118 today.

Median birth year
1907
About 118 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Hildur rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (32)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#542
1895

Spellings of Hildur

Hildur is not the most common spelling — Hilda is, with 98.4% against Hildur's 0.87%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hildur is used

Across 1910–2025, Hildur was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 323,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hildur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hildur around the world

Where Hildur ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–1996
    #615
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Hildur by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#542
1895
Peak year
1915
32 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
1933
All-time count
718
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hildur

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hildur

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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