Hilda is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild, formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning 'battle'. Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona,^[1] was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game.^[2] The name became rare in England during the later Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century.^[3] In Sweden it has been in use since the late 18th century, being a popular name throughout the 19th century. Hilde is a variant of Hilda. Another variation on Hild is Hildur.^[4][5][6]

Hilda is the name of:

• Hilda of Whitby (c. 614-680), English saint
• Princess Hilda of Nassau (1864–1952)
• Princess Hilda of Anhalt-Dessau (1839-1926)
• Hilda Bernard (1920–2022), Argentine stage, screen and television actress
• Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006), author, artist, and anti-apartheid and women's rights activist
• Hilda Borgström (1871–1954), Swedish actress
• Hilda Bettermann (1942-2023), American politician
• Hilda Braid (1929–2007), English actress
• Hilda Mabel Canter (1922–2007), English mycologist, protozoologist, and photographer
• Hilda Caselli (1836-1901), Swedish educational reformer
• Hilda Clayton (1991-2013), American U.S. Army specialist and war photographer
• Hilda Conkling (1910–1986), American poet
• Hilda Dallas (1878–1958) and sister Irene Dallas (1883 -1971), British suffragettes
• Hilda Eisen (1917–2017), a Polish-born American businessperson, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor
• Hilda Ellis Davidson (1914–2006), English antiquarian and academic
• H. D. (1886–1961), born Hilda Doolittle, American poet, novelist and memoirist
• Hilda de Duhalde (born 1946), Argentine politician
• Hilda Fenemore (1914–2004), English actress
• Hilda Gadea (1921-1974), Peruvian economist, communist leader, author, and Che Guevara's first wife
• Hilda Gaxiola (born 1972), Mexican beach volleyball player
• Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), Austrian mathematician and professor
• Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos) (1905–1998), American oil painter and watercolorist
• Hilda Habichayn (1934–2021), Argentine sociologist, created first master's program for women's studies in Latin America
• Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), first British woman aviator to earn a pilot's licence, and aviation entrepreneur
• Hilda Heine (1951), Marshallese educator and politician
• Hilda Hilst (1930–2004), Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist
• Hilda Phoebe Hudson (1881-1965), English mathematician
• Hilda Käkikoski (1864-1912), Finnish politician, writer and schoolteacher, one of the first nineteen women elected to parliament
• Hilda Kibet (born 1981), Dutch long distance runner
• Hilda Lovell-Smith (1886 - 1973), businesswoman and community organiser from New Zealand
• Hilda Lund (1840–1911), Swedish ballerina
• Hilda Molina (born 1942), chief neurosurgeon of Cuba and dissident
• Hilda Mundy (1912-1980), Bolivian writer, poet, journalist
• Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884-1961), Australian painter
• Hilda Petrini (1838–1895), Swedish clock maker
• Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, American business executive
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), English author, academic and historian
• Hilda Ramos (born 1964), Cuban discus thrower
• Hilda Muhlhauser Richards, American federal labor official
• Hilda Ross (1883-1959), New Zealand politician
• Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford (1869–1956), British politician
• Hilda Sachs (1857-1935), Swedish journalist and women's rights activist
• Hilda Sandels (1830-1921), Swedish opera singer
• Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915), Swedish photographer
• Hilda Solis (born 1957), United States Secretary of Labor in the Obama administration
• Hilda Crosby Standish (1902-2005), American birth control pioneer
• Hilda Svensson (born 2006), Swedish ice hockey player
• Hilda Tadria, Ugandan women's rights activist
• Hilda Terry (1914–2006), American cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Teena
• Hilda Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer

• Hilda, title character in Luke Pearson's Hilda series
• Hilda, the 36th hero in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Hilda, the female protagonist of the video game Pokémon Black and White
• Hilda, a minor character on the family television series The Muppet Show
• Hilda or Hildegarde (Beelzebub), a main character in the manga Beelzebub
• Hilda, a pinup girl created by Duane Bryers
• Hilda, the wife of Horace Rumpole, a character in the book and TV series Rumpole of the Bailey
• Hilda Berg, an airplane boss who can shapeshift into a zeppelin from Cuphead
• Dame Hilda Bracket, half of the opera singing female impersonation act "Hinge and Bracket"
• Hilda Valentine Goneril, a character from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Princess Hilda of Lorule, a character from the video game The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Hilda Ogden, from the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Hilda Spellman, a main character in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
• Hilda Suarez, from the American television series Ugly Betty
• "Hot Ice" Hilda, a supporting character in the anime Outlaw Star
• Polaris Hilda, the main antagonist of the Asgard arc in the anime Saint Seiya

• 153 Hilda, a large asteroid in the Hilda group in the Solar System, named after one of the discoverer's daughters.

• Brunhilda (disambiguation)
• Hildebrand
• Hildegard
• Gunhild
• Krimhild
• Mathilde
• St. Hilda's (disambiguation)
• Broom-Hilda, U.S. newspaper comic strip created by Russell Myers
• Hylda (disambiguation)
• Ildikó