Entry № 4258 · German origin

Hildegunde Hildegunde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A battle maiden"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a battle maiden".

Hildegunde is a name of German origin, meaning a battle maiden.

A battle maiden — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Hildegunde
Transliteration
Hildegunde
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hildegunde is built from.

Hildegunde is a compound name. Its parts are hild + gund — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

hild
Germanic
“battle”
gund
Germanic
“battle”

Where Hildegunde stands.

Hildegunde 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.

Hildegundes before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hildegunde.

The number behind Hildegunde.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hildegunde reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.