Hildur
Hildur was last recorded in 1933, when 6 babies were given it; 718 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hildur by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hildur mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Hildur is “a female given name, variant of Hilda”
Borrowed from Icelandic Hildur in the 19th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hildur?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #3,932, in 1933; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1915, the peak
Hildur peaked in 1915, when 32 girls were given it, #1,238 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 6 | #3,932 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,519 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,144 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,498 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,246 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,023 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 27 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,523 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 20 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 15 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 20 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,054 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 18 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 16 | #838 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 18 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 24 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 19 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 27 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 16 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 30 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 18 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 23 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 20 | #650 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 20 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 11 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 8 | #984 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1885 | 9 | #768 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hildur a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hildur has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hildur: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hildur, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Hildur and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 101 people named Hildur (98 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hildur
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hildur and names like it
- Compare Hildur and SadyeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHildur peaked in 1915.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hildur since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Hildur: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Hildur.
- Names starting with HMost given first.