Entry № 427 · Icelandic origin

Alfhild Alfhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHLV-hild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"Elf-battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "elf-battle".

It carries beauty and boldness.

It reads bright and brave, an elf-warrior name.

Elf-battle — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Alfhild
Transliteration
Alfhild
Pronunciation
/ ˈalv.hɪlt /
Root
Grammatical form

What Alfhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Alfhild stands.

Alfhild 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.

Alfhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Alfhild.

The number behind Alfhild.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alfhild reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.