Richhilde
Richhilde is an old German female given name .
Name variants
Richhild, Richilde
origin
The first part of the name is derived from Germanic “rik-” (ruler, king), Old High German “rihhi” (rule, empire) or Gothic “reiks” (ruler). The second part of the name comes from Old High German "hilta (hiltja)" (fight).
Literary figures
- Richilde in Johann Karl August Musäus - folk tales of the Germans, Volume 1: The books of the chronicle of the three sisters, Richilde, Roland's squires
swell
- Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz, Horst Leisering: Knaur's first name book . Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8
- Günther Drosdowski: Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names . Bibliographical Institute (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974