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. She presided over the Synod of Whitby (664) that decided the Roman date of Easter for England, and discovered the poet Cædmon, the first known English poet.
Cited as one of the great unifying figures of early English Christianity.
Hild reduces to eight — the number of Whitby abbess.