Entry № 3873 · Norse origin

Gunhild Gunhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Battle maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "battle maiden".

Gunhild is a name of Norse origin, meaning battle maiden.

Battle maiden — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Gunhild
Transliteration
Gunhild
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gunhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Gunhild stands.

Gunhild 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.

Gunhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gunhild.

The number behind Gunhild.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gunhild reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.