Entry № 4228 · Old Norse origin

Herdis Herdis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAIR-dis /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Warrior goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "warrior goddess".

It carries strength and a fierce, guardian grace.

It reads strong and sacred, a battle-goddess.

Warrior goddess — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Herdis
Transliteration
Herdis
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛr.dɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

What Herdis is built from.

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

heri
Germanic
“army”
dís
Old Norse
“goddess, lady”

Where Herdis stands.

Herdis 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.

Herdiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Herdis.

The number behind Herdis.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Herdis reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.