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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : from the personal name Hilding, which was popularized in the 19th century thanks to the poem Fritjofs saga by Esaias Tegnér, who took it from Old Icelandic Hildingr (from hildingr ‘chieftain’).
  • Dutch : patronymic from the personal name Hild.

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