Hildegard
Hildegard is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Hildegard is an old German female given name, the first part of which is formed from Old High German hilt (j) a = fight . The second component comes from Germanic and means protection .
distribution
At the end of the 19th century the name Hildegard was moderately popular in Germany. This changed in the first years of the 20th century, so that the name was among the ten most frequently given female first names from the beginning of the 1910s to the beginning of the thirties, and in 1922 it was even the most common. Then its popularity gradually waned, at first, from the mid-forties onwards, so that today hardly any children are called Hildegard.
variants
- Hildegarda ( Polish )
- Hildegarde
- Hildyard
- Hilke
name day
Name day is September 17th .
Name bearers
- Hildegard (Buchau) (after 1000), 5th abbess of the free worldly women's monastery in Buchau
- Hildegard (Carolingian) (758–783), wife of Charlemagne
- Hildegard (daughter of Ludwig the German) (828–856), abbess of the Fraumünster monastery in Zurich
- Hildegard Alex (* 1942), German actress
- Hildegard Luise of Bavaria (1825–1864), Austrian Archduchess
- Hildegard Maria von Bayern (1881–1948), Bavarian princess
- Hildegard von Bingen (around 1098–1179), Benedictine and important polymath
- Hildegard von Egisheim (1024-1094), member of the county Egisheim, ancestress of the Staufer
- Hildegard Falck (* 1949), German athlete and Olympic champion
- Hildegard Förster-Heldmann (* 1958), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1921–2016), German politician
- Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), German actress
- Hildegard Krekel (1952–2013), German actress
- Hildegard Margis (1887–1944), German women's rights activist, author and resistance fighter
- Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (1918–2000) German writer
- Hildegard von Spitzemberg (1843–1914), Berlin salonière
- Hildegard von Stein (* around 910, † 985), saint in Carinthia
- Hildegard le Viseur (1910–1999), German hurdler
- Hildegard Voigt (1856–1936), German writer
Fictional namesake
- Hildegard Bernbacher, the wife of Master Eder's friend Georg "Schorsch" Bernbacher from Master Eder and his Pumuckl .
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: Hildegard - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
- ↑ Józef Bubak: Wykaz Imion używanych w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej . In: Język Polski . 1983, p. 8 (Polish, online [accessed February 22, 2013]).