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Hildur is a variant transcription of Hilda (English, German, and Scandinavian). Hildur is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1904 with 0.007% of baby girls being named Hildur.
Hildur is 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.
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From 1880 to 2021, the Social Security Administration has recorded 718 babies born with the first name Hildur in the United States. That's more than enough people named Hildur to occupy the territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) with an estimated population of 605 (as of June 30, 2010).
This name derives from the Old Norse “Hildr” (Proto-Norse: *heldiō-), which in turn derives from the Ancient Germanic root “*hildiz,” meaning “battle, fight.” In Scandinavian language, Dutch and German, it is also the short form of any names beginning with “Hill-.”
Far from the land of the elves, in a mountainous region, there lived a farmer whose name we do not know. He was not married but had a clean and thrifty housekeeper named Hildur. Although she offered no information about her previous life or her family, the farmer trusted her and placed her in charge of his household.
