Entry № 4263 · Germanic origin

Hilde Hilde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HIL-deh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Battle, fighter"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "battle, fighter".

Hilde is the German short form of names containing the element hild, meaning "battle" — such as Hildegard, Brünhilde, or Mathilde.

Hilde is widely used in Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands.

Battle. The Germanic warrior root.

The name in its native script.

Hilde
Transliteration
Hilde
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɪl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hilde stands.

Hilde does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hildes before her.

Real people
Hilde Levi
Danish-German physicist.
1909 – 2003
In fiction
Hilde
Common in Scandinavian fiction.

Names connected to Hilde.

The number behind Hilde.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hilde reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.