Entry № 4261 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Hild Hild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Battle (Bede's beloved abbess of Whitby)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "battle (bede's beloved abbess of whitby)".

Hild is from the Old English hild (battle). Saint Hild of Whitby (614-680) was the Anglo-Saxon princess and abbess of Whitby Abbey — Bede called her "mother" of his church.

Battle (Bede's beloved abbess of Whitby) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Hild
Transliteration
Hild
Pronunciation
/ hɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hild stands.

Hild 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.

Hilds before her.

Real people
Saint Hild of Whitby
Abbess of Whitby.
614 – 680
In fiction
Hild
Heroine of Nicola Griffith's Hild.
2013

Names connected to Hild.

The number behind Hild.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hild reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.