Entry № 3886 · Icelandic origin

Gunnhildur Gunnhildur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A battle warrior"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a battle warrior".

Gunnhildur is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a battle warrior.

A battle warrior — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Gunnhildur
Transliteration
Gunnhildur
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gunnhildur is built from.

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

gunnr
Old Norse
“battle”
hildr
Old Norse
“battle”

Where Gunnhildur stands.

Gunnhildur 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.

Gunnhildurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gunnhildur.

The number behind Gunnhildur.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gunnhildur reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.