Entry № 6215 · Old Norse origin

Magnhild Magnhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAGN-hild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Mighty in battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "mighty in battle".

It carries courage and formidable resolve.

Mighty in battle — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Magnhild
Transliteration
Magnhild
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɡn.hɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

What Magnhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Magnhild stands.

Magnhild 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.

Magnhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Magnhild.

The number behind Magnhild.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Magnhild reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.