Entry № 8459 · Old Norse origin

Ragnhild Ragnhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHNG-hild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Battle counsel (iconic Norwegian queens)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Norse)

A name that means "battle counsel (iconic norwegian queens)".

Ragnhild is from the Old Norse regin (counsel, advice, the gods) + hildr (battle). 845-?) — wife of Harald Fairhair, mother of King Eric Bloodaxe; Ragnhild Sigurdsdatter (10th century) — mother of King Harald I of Norway; the name appears throughout the iconic Heimskringla (the chronicle of Norwegian kings by Snorri Sturluson, c. Ragnhild Halvorsen — modern Norwegian figure. Ragnhild Tveiten — Norwegian Olympic skier. Princess Ragnhild — multiple Norwegian royal heritage naming.

Battle counsel (Old Norse).

The name in its native script.

Ragnhild
Transliteration
Ragnhild
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑːŋ.hɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

What Ragnhild is built from.

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

regin
Old Norse
“the gods; counsel”
hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Ragnhild stands.

Ragnhild 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.

Ragnhilds before her.

Real people
Princess Ragnhild of Norway
Norwegian royal princess.
1930 – 2012
Ragnhild Hveger
Danish 3x World Record swimmer 1937-39.
1920 – 2011
In fiction
Ragnhild
Iconic Norse queen name.

Names connected to Ragnhild.

The number behind Ragnhild.

1

The Leader

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