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[Facts] My column on HIlda

by clevelandkentevans

11/17/2024, 7:43 AM

Here is the link to today's column. It's was interesting to see how Hilda seems to have increased the last decade so much in pop culture like anime and video games. I think the next couple of decades may well see a rise in many of the older "first syllable ends in -l, followed by another consonant" names like Hilda, Zelda, Velma, Alta, Alma, Elva, Gilda, Melba, Nelda, Olga, Selma, Thelma, Wilma, Zelma, etc.

https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-paying-homage-to-wise-women-on-st-hildas-day/article_5c80ebd4-a05d-11ef-af61-533fd8b3ce19.html

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- guasguendi +1

11/17/2024, 11:32 AM

Amazing column, thank you!

I didn't know Hilda was often featured in Japanese media. I wonder if it's viewed as a stereotypical European name, just like we see Sakura as stereotypically Japanese.

- ClaudiaS

11/17/2024, 7:09 PM

I didn't know that either (and I can't read the column), but Hilda transliterates very nicely into Japanese as
"Hiruda." Not too many English/Western names come across so well in Japanese.

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