Hildegard

Hildegard is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

Hildegard is an old German female first name, the first part from Old High German hilt ( j) a is formed = fight. The second part comes from the Germanic and means protection.

Dissemination

At the end of the 19th century, the name Hildegard in Germany was moderately popular. This changed in the early years of the 20th century, so that the name by the early 1910s was to the beginning of the thirties among the ten most awarded female name, in 1922 even the most common at all. Then his popularity waned, first gradually, starting in the mid -forties to be strong, so that today called barely children Hildegard.

Variants

• Hildegarda (Polish )
• Hildegarde
• Hilke

Name-day

Name day is September 17.

Famous names winners

• Hildegard ( Buchau ) ( after 1000 ), fifth abbess of free secular ladies pin Buchau
• Hildegard ( Carolingian ) ( 758-783 ), wife of Charlemagne
• Hildegard ( daughter of Louis the German ) ( 828-856 ), abbess of the monastery Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich
• Hildegard Luise of Bavaria (1825-1864), Austrian Archduchess
• Hildegard Maria of Bavaria (1881-1948), Bavarian princess
• Hildegard of Bingen ( 1098-1179 to ), German mystic
• Hildegard von Eguisheim (1024-1094), member of the county Egisheim, ancestress of the Staufer
• Hildegard Falck (* 1949), German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• Hildegard Hamm- Brücher (* 1921), German politician
• Hildegard Knef (1925-2002), German actress
• Hildegard Krekel (1952-2013), German actress
• Hildegard Margis (1897-1944), German women's rights activist, writer and resistance fighter
• Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (1918-2000) German writer
• Hildegard of Spitzemberg (1843-1914), Berlin salonière
• Hildegard von Stein ( c. 910, † 985 ), Holy in Carinthia

Fictitious names winners

• Hildegard Bernbacher, wife of Master Eder's friend Georg " Schorsch " Bernbacher from Master Eder and his Pumuckl.