{{For|the album|Hildegard (album)}} {{Infobox given name | name = Hildegard | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Female | meaning = "Battle Enclosure" | region = | language = Old High German | origin = | alternative spelling = Hildegarde, Hildegarda, Ildegarda, Hildegárd, Hildegardis | nickname = | variant forms = | related names = | name day = | derived = | popularity = | footnotes = }}
'''Hildegard''' is a female name derived from the Old High German ''hild'' ('war' or 'battle') and ''gard'' ('enclosure' or 'yard'), and means 'battle enclosure'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.behindthename.com/name/hildegard|title=Behind the Name: Meaning, origin and history of the name Hildegard|author=Mike Campbell|work=Behind the Name}}</ref><ref name="HanksHardcastle2006">{{cite book |author1=Patrick Hanks |author2=Kate Hardcastle |author3=Flavia Hodges |title=A Dictionary of First Names |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nd05X_awIgC&pg=PT224 |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |pages=224– |quote=Hildegard From an old Germanic female personal name composed of hild 'battle' + gard 'enclosure'.}}</ref> Variant spellings include: '''Hildegarde'''; the Polish, Portuguese, Slovene and Spanish '''Hildegarda'''; the Italian '''Ildegarda'''; the Hungarian '''Hildegárd'''; and the ancient German '''Hildegardis'''.<ref name="Castellón1990">{{cite book|author=Toñi F. Castellón|title=El significado de los nombres|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quiKLHCc8vcC&pg=PA137|year=1990|publisher=Editorial Sirio, S.A.|language=es|isbn=978-84-7808-311-4|pages=137–}}</ref>
==Notable people with the name== {{unsorted list|date=June 2025}} * Hildegard (music duo), 2021 electronic music project by Canadian musicians Helena Deland and Ouri * Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825–1864), Bavarian royal * Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Christian saint * Hildegarde of Burgundy (c. 1056 – 1104), French noble * Hildegard of Fraumünster (828–856 or 859), daughter of Louis the German and first abbess of Fraumünster * Hildegard, second wife of Charlemagne * Hildegard, Countess of Auvergne or Matilda (c. 802–841), daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye * Hildegard Appeltauer (1927–2017), Austrian figure skater and Olympian * Hildegard Bachert (1921–2019), German-born American art dealer and gallery director * Hildegard Bechtler (born 1951), German costume and set designer * Hildegard Behrens (1937–2009), German opera singer * Hildegard Bentele (born 1967), German politician * Hildegard Björck (1847–1920), Swedish academic pioneer * Hildegard Breiner, Austrian anti-nuclear activist * Hildegard Brom-Fischer (1908–2001), Dutch textile artist, specializing in ecclesiastical embroidery * Hildegard Burjan (1883–1933), German Roman Catholic convert from Judaism and the founder of the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis * Hildegard Damerius (1910–2006), German lawyer and politician * Hildegard Embacher (born 1967), Austrian cross-country skier and Olympian * Hildegard Falck (born 1949), German middle distance runner and Olympic medalist * Hildegard Fässler (born 1951), Swiss politician * Hildegard Feldmann (1936–1990), Swiss nurse and Catholic lay missionary who was active in India and Colombia * Hildegarde Flanner (1899–1987), American poet and activist * Hildegard Goebbels (1934–1945), daughter and murder victim of Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels * Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 1930), Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian * Hildegard Grethe (1898–1961), German actress * Hildegard Grill (1927–2023), Austrian gymnast and Olympian * Hildegard Hess (1920–2014), German chemist * Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1921–2016), German politician * Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel (1944–2024), German academic * Hildegard Heichele (born 1947), German soprano in opera, concert and recital * Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998), American paleornithologist * Hildegard Jadamowitz (1916–1942), German communist activist and a member of the German resistance against National Socialism * Hildegard Jone (1891–1963), Austrian poet and artist * Hildegard Joos (1909–2005), Austrian painter * Hildegard Kleeb (born 1957), Swiss pianist * Hilde Klusenwerth (1910–1999), German hurdler and Olympian * Hildegarde Kneeland (1889–1994), American economist and statistician * Hildegard Knef (1925–2002), German actress, singer and writer * Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl (1908–1968), German-born American physicist * Hildegard Korger (1935–2018), Czech master calligrapher, scholar and professor * Hildegard Körner (born 1959), East German middle distance runner and Olympian * Hildegard Krekel (1952–2013), German actress * Hildegard Lächert (1920–1995), German Nazi concentration camp guard * Hildegard Lamfrom (1922–1984), German-American molecular biologist/biochemist * Hildegard Lehnert (1857–1943), German painter * Hildegard Lewy (1903–1969), Romanian Assyriologist and academic * Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981), poet, playwright and novelist * Hildegard Löwy (1922–1943), German Jewish office worker and member of the anti-Nazi resistance * Hildegard Mende (1922–?), German Nazi concentration camp guard * Hildegarde Naughton (born 1977), Irish politician and mayor of Galway * Hildegarde Neil (1939–2023), South African-born English actress * Hildegard Neuffer-Stavenhagen (1866–1939), German writer with a focus on children's literature and education * Hildegard Neumann (born 1919 – c. 2010), German Nazi and concentration camp overseer * Hildegard Maria Nickel (born 1948), German sociologist and feminist * Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), German photographer * Hildegard Peplau (1909–1999), American nurse * Hildegard Puwak (1949–2018), Romanian politician * Hildegard Ranczak (1895–1987), Bohemian operatic soprano * Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (1918–2000), German writer * Hildegard Reinhardt (born 1942), German translator and art historian * Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira (1914–1933, Spanish activist for socialism and sexual revolution * Hildegard Rosenthal (1913–1990), Swiss-born Brazilian photographer * Hildegard Rothe-Ille (1899–1942), German mathematician * Hildegard Rütgers (born 1930), German classical contralto singer in opera and concert * Hildegard Schaeder (1902–1984), German theologian and church historian * Hilde Schrader (1910–1966), German swimmer and Olympian * Hildegarde Sell (1906–2005), American cabaret singer known as Hildegarde * Hildegard Sellhuber (born 1950), retired German speed skater and Olympian * Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908–1981), German-Danish tennis player * Hildegard Stücklen (1891–1963), German-American physicist who dealt with spectroscopy * Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum (1939–2004), German classical historian and writer * Hildegard Thorell (1850–1930), Swedish painter * Hildegard Trabant (1927–1964), East German woman shot and killed while trying to cross over the Berlin Wall into West Germany * Hildegard Vieregg (born 1939), German museologist and museum professional, an educator, a university professor and lecturer, author, editor and administrator * Hilda (Hildegarde) Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer * Hildegard Werner (1834–1911), Swedish musician, musical conductor, and journalist active in Great Britain * Hildegard Westerkamp (born 1946), German-born Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist * Hildegard Woodward (1898–1977), American children's book author and illustrator * Hildegard Wortmann (born 1966), German business executive
==Notable fictional characters== * Hildegarde Antoinette "Hilda" Spellman, a character in the comic book ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' and subsequent television series * Hildegarde (Marvel Comics), a Valkyrie * Hildegarde Withers, in novels and films * Hildegard von Krone, from the ''Soul'' series of fighting games * Hildegard von Mariendorf, from ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' * Hildegarde T., from the anime and manga series ''Beelzebub'' by Ryūhei Tamura * Hildegarde, in the Johann Strauss operetta ''Simplicius'' * Hildegard 'Hildy' Johnson, from 1940 American comedy film ''His Girl Friday'' * Princess Hildegard, from the Disney animated series ''Sofia the First'' * Hildegarde, from the game ''Catan'' (web/app version) * Hildegard; 'Devout Oracle' from the mobile game ''Dragalia Lost'' * Hildegarde (Hilda) from the manga and anime series Beelzebub ''Beelzebub (manga)'' * Hildegard Hamhocker, a character in ''Tumbleweeds (comic strip)'' * Hildegard "Hildy" Gloom, witch and main antagonist of ''The 7D''
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{given name}} Category:Feminine given names Category:German feminine given names