Entry № 3683 · Icelandic origin

Gislaug Gislaug — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"Consecrated by a pledge"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "consecrated by a pledge".

Gislaug is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning consecrated by a pledge.

Consecrated by a pledge — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Gislaug
Transliteration
Gislaug
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gislaug is built from.

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

laug
Old Norse
“consecrated, vowed”

Where Gislaug stands.

Gislaug 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.

Gislaugs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gislaug.

The number behind Gislaug.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gislaug reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.