Entry № 7205 · Old Norse origin

Nanna Nanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Baldr's wife (died of grief)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "baldr's wife (died of grief)".

Nanna is from the Old Norse nanna (woman, mother). Nanna was the Norse goddess and wife of the beautiful god Baldr — when Baldr was killed by Loki's trick and laid on the funeral pyre, Nanna died of grief and was burned alongside him. The original "died of a broken heart."

Featured in the Prose Edda.

Baldr's wife. Died of grief and was burned with him on his funeral pyre.

The name in its native script.

Nanna
Transliteration
Nanna
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑːn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nanna stands.

Nanna 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.

Nannas before her.

Real people
Nanna
Norse goddess.
In fiction
Nanna
Featured in the Prose Edda.
Snorri Sturluson

Names connected to Nanna.

The number behind Nanna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nanna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.