Entry № 1663 · Icelandic origin

Brynhildur Brynhildur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"An armored warrior maiden"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "an armored warrior maiden".

Brynhildur is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning an armored warrior maiden.

An armored warrior maiden — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Brynhildur
Transliteration
Brynhildur
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Brynhildur is built from.

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

hildr
Old Norse
“battle”

Where Brynhildur stands.

Brynhildur 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.

Brynhildurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Brynhildur.

The number behind Brynhildur.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brynhildur reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.