Entry № 3577 · Norse origin

Geirdis Geirdis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"A spear goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a spear goddess".

Geirdis is a name of Norse origin, meaning a spear goddess.

A spear goddess — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Geirdis
Transliteration
Geirdis
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Geirdis is built from.

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

dís
Old Norse
“goddess, lady”

Where Geirdis stands.

Geirdis 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.

Geirdiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Geirdis.

The number behind Geirdis.

8

The Visionary

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