Hilda’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Hilda
Hilda's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Hilda's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Hilda: meaning and origin
Hilda began as a short form of names containing the Germanic element hildi, Old English hild, meaning “battle”, says Behind the Name. It was used for both Old English and continental Germanic names. Wikipedia connects it to Hild, a Valkyrie in Norse tradition, and says battle was sometimes called Hild’s Game.
Nicknames and variants
Wikipedia gives Hildy as an English nickname. Behind the Name lists Hylda, Hilde and Hild as variants, Hildur in Norway and Iceland, and Ilda in Italian and Portuguese.
Famous people named Hilda
Poet Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1886 and wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Wikipedia says she moved to London in 1911 and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with Ezra Pound, and her short free-verse poems on Classical themes drew international attention. She later wrote novels, memoirs and long poems.
Is Hilda a popular name?
Hilda was a favorite from the 1890s to the 1920s. US Social Security data has it at 99th in the 1900s, 111th in the 1910s and 142nd in the 1920s, when more than 18,100 American girls were named Hilda. Behind the Name says it had become rare in England in the later Middle Ages and was revived in the 19th century.
Hilda trivia
Saint Hilda founded Whitby Abbey on the Yorkshire coast. Wikipedia says she was its first abbess and hosted the Synod of Whitby in 664, and she encouraged Cædmon, a cowherd at the monastery, to sing his religious verses. A legend says she turned a plague of snakes to stone, which explained the ammonite fossils on the shore. Her feast day is November 17.
Gift ideas that suit a Hilda
- For a November birthday. A gift for a Hilda whose feast day is November 17.
- For a poet. Free verse and drafts, in honor of H.D.
- For a fossil hunter. A field notebook for ammonites and beach finds.
- For a trip to England. A travel journal for the Yorkshire coast.
How Hilda can use it
Any Hilda, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Hilda can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Hilda’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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