Entry № 2736 · Old Norse origin

Edda Edda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ED-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Norse poetry collections"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "norse poetry collections".

Edda is the name of the two Norse mythology collections — the Poetic Edda and Snorri's Prose Edda. Meaning debated: "great-grandmother" or "poetry."

Used as a feminine name in Scandinavia.

Norse poetry. The literary mother.

The name in its native script.

Edda
Transliteration
Edda
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛd.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Edda stands.

Edda 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.

Eddas before her.

Real people
Edda Mussolini
Italian heiress.
1910 – 1995
In fiction
Edda
Norse poetic literature.
Snorri Sturluson, 13th c.

Names connected to Edda.

The number behind Edda.

5

The Seeker

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