Hilla (first name)

Hilla is a mainly female given name .

Origin and variants

The name is the Finnish short form of names beginning with Hil . It also means cloudberry in Finnish .

Other variants are Hailwic (old German), Heilwig (German) and Hillevi (Swedish). Colloquially, Hilla is often used as a short form for Hildegard .

Name bearers

• Hilla Becher (1934–2015), German artist
• Hilla Hofer (1914–1990), German dancer, stage and film actress
• Hilla Jablonsky (1922–2019), German painter, draftsman and poet
• Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967), German-American painter, art collector and patron

Name bearer

• Hilla Limann (1934–1998), President of Ghana

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Hilla. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .