Entry № 4310 · Norse origin

Hjordis Hjordis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"A sword goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a sword goddess".

Hjordis is a name of Norse origin, meaning a sword goddess, a warrior woman.

A sword goddess — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Hjordis
Transliteration
Hjordis
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hjordis is built from.

Hjordis 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 Hjordis stands.

Hjordis 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.

Hjordiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hjordis.

The number behind Hjordis.

2

The Peacemaker

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