Entry № 8421 · Icelandic origin

Ragnborg Ragnborg — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A fortress of wisdom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a fortress of wisdom".

Ragnborg is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a fortress of wisdom.

A fortress of wisdom — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Ragnborg
Transliteration
Ragnborg
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Ragnborg is built from.

Ragnborg is a compound name. Its parts are regin + borg — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

regin
Old Norse
“the gods; counsel”
borg
Old Norse
“fortress”

Where Ragnborg stands.

Ragnborg 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.

Ragnborgs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ragnborg.

The number behind Ragnborg.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ragnborg reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.