Entry № 9825 · Old Norse origin

Snefrid Snefrid — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SNEH-frid /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Sami beauty (Harald Fairhair's beloved)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "sami beauty (harald fairhair's beloved)".

Snefrid (Snæfríðr) is from the Old Norse snær (snow) and fríðr (fair, beautiful) — "snow-fair." Snæfríðr Svásadóttir was the Sami princess whose enchanting beauty so captivated King Harald Fairhair of Norway that he neglected his kingdom for three years after her death.

Featured in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.

Sami beauty (Harald Fairhair's beloved) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Snæfríðr
Transliteration
Snæfríðr
Pronunciation
/ ˈsnɛ.frɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

What Snefrid is built from.

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

friþu
Germanic
“peace”

Where Snefrid stands.

Snefrid 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.

Snefrids before her.

Real people
Snæfríðr Svásadóttir
Sami beloved of Harald Fairhair.
9th c.
In fiction
Snefrid
Featured in Heimskringla.
Snorri Sturluson

Names connected to Snefrid.

The number behind Snefrid.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Snefrid reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.