Entry № 4260 · German origin

Hildrun Hildrun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A secret rune of battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a secret rune of battle".

Hildrun is a name of German origin, meaning a secret rune of battle.

A secret rune of battle — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Hildrun
Transliteration
Hildrun
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hildrun is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”
rún
Old Norse
“secret lore, rune”

Where Hildrun stands.

Hildrun 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.

Hildruns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hildrun.

The number behind Hildrun.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hildrun reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.