Entry № 3954 · Icelandic origin

Hafdis Hafdis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A sea goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a sea goddess".

Hafdis is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a sea goddess, a mermaid.

A sea goddess — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Hafdis
Transliteration
Hafdis
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hafdis is built from.

Hafdis 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 Hafdis stands.

Hafdis 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.

Hafdiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hafdis.

The number behind Hafdis.

2

The Peacemaker

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