Hilda

[Firebird83]

I met a 3 year old Hilda the other day and it was surprisingly quite cute on her! Can you ever see it making a comeback? I suppose it’s quite similar in sound to Matilda which is popular.

I like it. Doris is another one that deserves a comeback.

I think Hilda is fairly popular in Sweden & Finland? Scandi names in general are becoming more popular in the UK (e.g. Magnus, Soren, Freya, Ingrid), so it might well see a bump in popularity here. Plus there's quite a popular animated series on Netflix called Hilda, which probably helps.

I don't mind it. I think it's a name that could easily grow on me the more little Hilda's I met.

I think it fits with all the other names of that era that are highly fashionable now. Names that I think are very old fashioned ( my great Aunts) but that people young enough to be having babies now won't remember people who had those names.

Sorry it's beyond hideous.

Hilda and Doris : just no!

But I do take PP’s point that these were ancient names for those of us of a certain age, however: NO

My paternal granny was Edna - yet to make a comeback but popular at the time ( 1920s ? )

I quite like it.

Sounds strong but still feminine.

No, it's got very frumpy associations, at least in this country.

Very marmite name (it's a no from me ... so is Doris)

There’s only one Hilda.

Wouldn't surprise me to hear its coming back. I met a Maud this week.

I love it. Was on my list for DD2 as well as Hildy but DH vetoed. Most of the top 100 names these days are names like this making a comeback.

I don't like Hilda or Matilda.

Agree with @UsingChangeofName

It is very much same era and style as other 'old lady names' which are gradually making a come back, eg. Mabel, Maud, Olive, Elsie etc

I remember my Mum (now in her mid 70s) being horrified when Emily, Charlotte etc came back in fashion as they were the names of her ancient great aunties etc!

Fab heritage name. St Hilda was awesome. One of the most significant women in early Christian British history. A feminist. And educator.

It's a no from.me. Hilda Ogden was great.

Lots of names of that era are definitely coming back, I know of babies names Mavis and Peggy.

I know one called hilly for short! It's lovely

To me, Hilda is like Gladys, Maud, Mavis and Edna - not yet ready for their old lady comeback. But who knows in a decade's time?

I quite like it. I think of the Scandinavian-style cartoon on Netflix. Today's children almost certainly won't know about the older connotations. Let's not forget that once upon a time Amelia and Isabella were considered "old lady" names.

@IglesiasPiggl , I think Maud is lovely (the Welsh form of it is fab). If you'd told me20 yrs ago that Elsie, Mabel, Pearl and Ivy would come back, I'd have been surprised, and yet they are very popular now.

I think when you separate it from Coronation Street connotations and look at it more objectively, there’s nothing wrong with Hilda. Nor eg Thora for that matter. And which peers of a child born now will know Corrie? And as other posters have said, it sits with the modern popularity of Nordic names.

And yes to Doris, big thumbs up. It’s such a positive-sounding, fun-sounding name.

I like it and have never really understood why it didn't rise with Matilda, Hazel and Edith.

It reminds me of my great aunt who was one of the strongest most inspirational women I knew.

St Hilda awesome woman.