Entry № 913 · Icelandic origin

Arnleif Arnleif — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"An heir of the eagle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "an heir of the eagle".

Arnleif is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning an heir of the eagle.

An heir of the eagle — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Arnleif
Transliteration
Arnleif
Pronunciation
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Root
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Grammatical form
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What Arnleif is built from.

Arnleif is a compound name. Its parts are arn + leifr — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

arn
Germanic
“eagle”
leifr
Old Norse
“heir, descendant”

Where Arnleif stands.

Arnleif 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.

Arnleifs before her.

Real people

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Names connected to Arnleif.

The number behind Arnleif.

2

The Peacemaker

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