Entry № 1551 · Old Norse origin

Bodil Bodil — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-dil /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Commanding; battle-remedy"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "commanding; battle-remedy".

Bodil is a name of Old Norse origin, meaning commanding; battle-remedy.

Commanding; battle-remedy — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Bodil
Transliteration
Bodil
Pronunciation
/ ˈboː.dil /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bodil stands.

Bodil 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.

Bodils before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Bodil.

The number behind Bodil.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bodil reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.