Entry № 9799 · Old Norse origin

Skuld Skuld — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKOOLD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Future (one of the three Norns)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "future (one of the three norns)".

Skuld is from the Old Norse skuld (debt, obligation, that which is to be). Skuld is the youngest, representing what is to come — sometimes identified as a Valkyrie.

Featured in the Poetic Edda.

Future (one of the three Norns) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Skuld
Transliteration
Skuld
Pronunciation
/ skʊld /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Skuld stands.

Skuld 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.

Skulds before her.

Real people
Skuld
Norse goddess of fate.
In fiction
Skuld
Featured in Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Names connected to Skuld.

The number behind Skuld.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Skuld reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.