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Hulda

“secrecy, hiding”

feminineLatin script

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Origin: Old Norse
9 language contexts: English German Swedish +6 more
Follow the evidence: 10 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Hulda

Hulda is a feminine given name documented in English, German, Swedish and 6 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Hulda, with the stated meaning “secrecy, hiding”.

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “secrecy, hiding”

From Old Norse Hulda (“secrecy, hiding”), see hulda.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

English Wiktionary accountSource-reportedThe name occurs in the Bible, but in Scandinavia it became popular through a 19th century ballad, and is usually associated with the adjective huld (“gentle,…

The name occurs in the Bible, but in Scandinavia it became popular through a 19th century ballad, and is usually associated with the adjective huld (“gentle, graceful”), cognate to German hold.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (10)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q857854
Feminine usage in Danish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in German · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in English · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Finnish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Faroese · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Icelandic · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Norwegian Bokmål · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Swedish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Norwegian · Greek Wiktionary: Hulda

Explore all 9 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Hulda” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q857854.

Name days: 07-07 (Norway), 09-08 (Sweden).

All pronunciation details (9)

[ˈhʊlda] — German
[ˈhʊldas] — German (plural)
[…] — Swedish
[ˈhuldɑ̝] — Finnish
/ˈhuldɑ/ — Finnish
[ˈhʏlta] — Icelandic
/ˈhʏlta/ — Icelandic
[ˈhʉ̀l.dǎ] — Norwegian Bokmål
/¹hʉl.da/ — Norwegian Bokmål

02 / Across borders

Where Hulda is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Hulda’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1980: 5 girls (rank 10392). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 19 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Hulda

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1980: 5; applications; Rank #10,392
Peak year: 1895; 167 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Hulda in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	60	198	observed
1881	44	235	observed
1882	67	203	observed
1883	71	207	observed
1884	86	201	observed
1885	113	171	observed
1886	85	214	observed
1887	108	193	observed
1888	126	200	observed
1889	139	192	observed
1890	147	197	observed
1891	138	194	observed
1892	126	232	observed
1893	137	222	observed
1894	144	221	observed
1895	167	207	observed
1896	129	251	observed
1897	130	249	observed
1898	138	254	observed
1899	118	262	observed
1900	110	322	observed
1901	104	299	observed
1902	89	332	observed
1903	108	302	observed
1904	92	339	observed
1905	97	346	observed
1906	75	397	observed
1907	86	383	observed
1908	66	444	observed
1909	76	421	observed
1910	75	461	observed
1911	76	473	observed
1912	84	531	observed
1913	92	532	observed
1914	98	571	observed
1915	131	563	observed
1916	148	546	observed
1917	124	612	observed
1918	101	718	observed
1919	131	612	observed
1920	93	750	observed
1921	101	732	observed
1922	95	750	observed
1923	82	800	observed
1924	70	903	observed
1925	71	877	observed
1926	64	931	observed
1927	48	1,097	observed
1928	44	1,147	observed
1929	41	1,159	observed
1930	35	1,274	observed
1931	34	1,243	observed
1932	31	1,320	observed
1933	27	1,400	observed
1934	20	1,697	observed
1935	21	1,663	observed
1936	16	1,950	observed
1937	15	2,101	observed
1938	21	1,703	observed
1939	20	1,731	observed
1940	11	2,572	observed
1941	22	1,696	observed
1942	15	2,311	observed
1943	15	2,352	observed
1944	14	2,401	observed
1945	11	2,742	observed
1946	17	2,318	observed
1947	10	3,448	observed
1948	6	4,651	observed
1949	9	3,612	observed
1950	12	3,052	observed
1951	14	2,810	observed
1952	7	4,483	observed
1953	8	4,226	observed
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	9	4,069	observed
1956	9	4,161	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	5	6,578	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	6	5,817	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	7	7,296	observed
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	5	10,392	observed
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Hulda” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Hulda Garborg
1862–1934
Norwegian writer and politician (1862–1934)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Carin Göring
1888–1931
Swedish wife of Hermann Göring
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Maria Kulle
born 1960
Swedish actress
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Hulda with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q857854CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Hulda.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Hulda.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Hulda

Hulda is a feminine given name documented in English, German, Swedish and 6 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Hulda, with the stated meaning “secrecy, hiding”.

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “secrecy, hiding”

From Old Norse Hulda (“secrecy, hiding”), see hulda.

Sources for this account (7)

Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

The name occurs in the Bible, but in Scandinavia it became popular through a 19th century ballad, and is usually associated with the adjective huld (“gentle, graceful”), cognate to German hold.

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Documented usage

View usage notes (10)

Feminine usage · Wikidata Q857854
Feminine usage in Danish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in German · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in English · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Finnish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Faroese · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Icelandic · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Norwegian Bokmål · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Swedish · Wiktionary: Hulda
Feminine usage in Norwegian · Greek Wiktionary: Hulda

Explore all 9 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Hulda” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q857854.

Name days: 07-07 (Norway), 09-08 (Sweden).

All pronunciation details (9)

[ˈhʊlda] — German
[ˈhʊldas] — German (plural)
[…] — Swedish
[ˈhuldɑ̝] — Finnish
/ˈhuldɑ/ — Finnish
[ˈhʏlta] — Icelandic
/ˈhʏlta/ — Icelandic
[ˈhʉ̀l.dǎ] — Norwegian Bokmål
/¹hʉl.da/ — Norwegian Bokmål

Where Hulda is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Hulda’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 1980: 5 girls (rank 10392). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 19 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Hulda

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1980: 5; applications; Rank #10,392
Peak year: 1895; 167 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Hulda in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	60	198	observed
1881	44	235	observed
1882	67	203	observed
1883	71	207	observed
1884	86	201	observed
1885	113	171	observed
1886	85	214	observed
1887	108	193	observed
1888	126	200	observed
1889	139	192	observed
1890	147	197	observed
1891	138	194	observed
1892	126	232	observed
1893	137	222	observed
1894	144	221	observed
1895	167	207	observed
1896	129	251	observed
1897	130	249	observed
1898	138	254	observed
1899	118	262	observed
1900	110	322	observed
1901	104	299	observed
1902	89	332	observed
1903	108	302	observed
1904	92	339	observed
1905	97	346	observed
1906	75	397	observed
1907	86	383	observed
1908	66	444	observed
1909	76	421	observed
1910	75	461	observed
1911	76	473	observed
1912	84	531	observed
1913	92	532	observed
1914	98	571	observed
1915	131	563	observed
1916	148	546	observed
1917	124	612	observed
1918	101	718	observed
1919	131	612	observed
1920	93	750	observed
1921	101	732	observed
1922	95	750	observed
1923	82	800	observed
1924	70	903	observed
1925	71	877	observed
1926	64	931	observed
1927	48	1,097	observed
1928	44	1,147	observed
1929	41	1,159	observed
1930	35	1,274	observed
1931	34	1,243	observed
1932	31	1,320	observed
1933	27	1,400	observed
1934	20	1,697	observed
1935	21	1,663	observed
1936	16	1,950	observed
1937	15	2,101	observed
1938	21	1,703	observed
1939	20	1,731	observed
1940	11	2,572	observed
1941	22	1,696	observed
1942	15	2,311	observed
1943	15	2,352	observed
1944	14	2,401	observed
1945	11	2,742	observed
1946	17	2,318	observed
1947	10	3,448	observed
1948	6	4,651	observed
1949	9	3,612	observed
1950	12	3,052	observed
1951	14	2,810	observed
1952	7	4,483	observed
1953	8	4,226	observed
1954	10	3,718	observed
1955	9	4,069	observed
1956	9	4,161	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	5	6,578	observed
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	6	5,817	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	7	7,296	observed
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	5	10,392	observed
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Hulda Garborg
1862–1934
Norwegian writer and politician (1862–1934)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Carin Göring
1888–1931
Swedish wife of Hermann Göring
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Maria Kulle
born 1960
Swedish actress
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q857854CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: HuldaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Hulda.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Hulda.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Hulda

About Hulda

Old Norse origin

Where Hulda is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Hulda Garborg

Carin Göring

Maria Kulle

Huldah

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Hulda

About Hulda

Old Norse origin

Where Hulda is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Hulda Garborg

Carin Göring

Maria Kulle

Huldah

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Hulda

Old Norse origin

Where Hulda is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Hulda Garborg

Carin Göring

Maria Kulle

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Huldah

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Hulda

Old Norse origin

Where Hulda is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers

Hulda Garborg

Carin Göring

Maria Kulle

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Huldah

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page