Entry № 1359 · Old Norse origin

Bergljot Bergljot — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BERG-lyot /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Mountain-light (Snorri's wife who saved his life)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "mountain-light (snorri's wife who saved his life)".

Used widely in modern Norway.

Mountain-light. The Norwegian noblewoman.

The name in its native script.

Bergljót
Transliteration
Bergljót
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛrɡ.ljɒt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bergljot stands.

Bergljot 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.

Bergljots before her.

Real people
Bergljot
Medieval Norwegian noblewoman.
11th c.
In fiction
Bergljot
Featured in Snorri's Heimskringla.

Names connected to Bergljot.

The number behind Bergljot.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bergljot reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.