Hilde (given name)

Hilde is one of several female given names derived from the name Hild formed from Old Norse hildr, meaning "battle". Hild, a Nordic-German Bellona, was a Valkyrie who conveyed fallen warriors to Valhalla. Warfare was often called Hild's Game. Hilde was popular in Norway from the 1950s until the 1970s. It is a variant of Hilda, which in turn is a more recent variation of Hildur.

• Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989), East German judge who presided over political show trials
• Hilde Bergebakken (born 1963), Norwegian Socialist Left Party politician
• Hilde De Baerdemaeker (born 1978), Flemish actress
• Hilde Bruch (1904–1984), German-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Hilde Coppi (1909–1943), German communist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter
• Hilde Crevits (born 1967), Belgian politician
• Hilde Domin (1909–2006), German lyric poet and writer
• Hilde Gerg (born 1975), German former alpine skier
• Hilde Güden (1917–1988), Austrian operatic soprano
• Hilde Hagerup (born 1976), Norwegian novelist and children author
• Hilde Haugsgjerd (born 1952), Norwegian newspaper editor
• Hilde Heynen (born 1959), Belgian professor of architectural theory
• Hilde Hildebrand (1897–1976), German actress
• Hilde Himmelweit (1918–1989), German social psychologist
• Hilde Holger (1905–2001), Austrian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
• Hilde Holovsky (died 1933), Austrian figure skater
• Hilda Mary Hooke (1898–1978), Canadian writer
• Hilde Houben-Bertrand (born 1940), Belgian Flemish politician and former provincial governor of Limburg
• Hilde Hovdenak (born 1971), Norwegian retired long-distance runner
• Hilde Hummelvoll (born 1960), Norwegian television personality
• Hilde Indreberg (born 1957), Norwegian judge
• Hilde Frafjord Johnson (born 1963), Norwegian Christian Democratic Party politician
• Hilde Konetzni (1905–1980), Austrian operatic soprano
• Hilde Körber (1906–1969), German film actress
• Hilde Krahl (1917–1999), Austrian film actress
• Hilde Lauer (born 1943), Romanian Olympic sprint canoer
• Hilde Lindemann, American philosophy professor and bioethicist
• Hilde Lyrån (born 1963), Norwegian actress, dancer, and comedian
• Hilde Lysiak (born 2006), American journalist
• Hilde Magnusson Lydvo (born 1970), Norwegian politician
• Hilde Mangold (1898–1924), German embryologist
• Hilde Marstrander (born 1969), Norwegian fashion journalist and illustrator
• Hilde Meisel (1914–1945), Jewish German socialist, journalist and anti-Nazi resistance member
• Hilde Østbø (born 1974), Norwegian Olympic handball player
• Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen (born 1964)
• Hilde Quintens (born 1964), Belgian cyclist
• Hilde Riis (born 1959), Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
• Hilde Sandvik (born 1970), Norwegian journalist
• Hilde Schrader (1910–1966), German Olympic swimmer
• Hilde Schramm (born 1936), daughter of German architect and war criminal Albert Speer
• Hilde Sherman (1923–2011), German Holocaust survivor and memoirist.
• Hilde Singsaas (born 1972), Norwegian Labour Party politician
• Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908–1981), German tennis player
• Hilde Strømsvold (born 1967), Norwegian football goalkeeper
• Hilde Synnøve Lid (born 1971), Norwegian Olympic freestyle skier
• Hilde Teerlinck (born 1966), Belgian curator
• Hilde Tellesbø (born 1963), Norwegian orienteering competitor
• Hilde Urbaniak (fl. late 1950s), West German slalom canoeist
• Hilde Vogt (born 1945), Norwegian politician
• Hilde Waage (born 1959), Norwegian historian
• Hilde Weissner (1909–1987), German actress
• Hilde Zach (1942–2011), mayor of Innsbruck, Austria
• Hilde Zadek (1917–2019), German operatic soprano
• Hilde Zaloscer (1903–1999), Austrian art historian, Egyptologist, Coptologist, essayist and novelist
• Hilde Ziegler (1939–1999), German actress
• Hilde Zimmermann (1920–2002), Austrian resistance fighter against Nazism and survivor of the KZ Ravensbrück