Entry № 4268 · German origin

Hiltrud Hiltrud — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A strong battle maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a strong battle maiden".

Hiltrud is a name of German origin, meaning a strong battle maiden.

A strong battle maiden — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Hiltrud
Transliteration
Hiltrud
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hiltrud is built from.

Hiltrud is a compound name. Its parts are þrúðr — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

þrúðr
Germanic
“strength”

Where Hiltrud stands.

Hiltrud does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hiltruds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hiltrud.

The number behind Hiltrud.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hiltrud reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.