Hilda

Hildais one of several female given names derived from the name Hild, formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning "battle". Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century. In Sweden it has been in use since the late 18th century, being a popular name throughout the 19th century. Hilde is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on Hild is Hildur.

Hilda is the name of:

• Hilda of Whitby (c. 614-680), English saint
• Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864–1952)
• Hilda Bernard (born 1920), 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 Braid (1929–2007), English actress
• 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 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 Hewlett (1864–1943), first British woman aviator to earn a pilot's licence, and aviation entrepreneur
• Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
• Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881-1965), English mathematician
• 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 Rix Nicholas (1884-1961), Australian painter
• Hilda Petrini (1838–1895), Swedish clock maker
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), English author, academic and historian
• Hilda Ramos (born 1964), Cuban discus thrower
• 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 Tadria, Ugandan women's rights activist
• Hilda Terry (1914–2006), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Teena

• Hilda, title character in Luke Pearson's Hilda series
• Hilda, the 36th hero in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Hilda, the female protagonist of Pokémon Black and White
• Hilda, a minor character on the family television series The Muppet Show
• Hilda or Hildegarde (Beelzebub), a main character in the manga Beelzebub
• Dame Hilda Bracket, half of the opera singing female impersonation act "Hinge and Bracket"
• Hilda Berg, an airplane boss who can shapeshift into a Zeppelin from the indie game based on 1930s cartoons - Cuphead (2017)
• Hilda Ogden, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Hilda, wife of Horace Rumpole, a character in the book and TV series Rumpole of the Bailey, who calls her "She Who Must Be Obeyed"
• 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
• Princess Hilda of Lorule, a character from The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Hilda (pinup girl), an overweight pinup created by Duna Bryers
• Hilda Valentine Goneril, a character from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

• 153 Hilda, a large asteroid in the Hilda group in the Solar System, named after one of the discoverer's daughters.