Entry № 10005 · Old Norse origin

Steinunn Steinunn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Stone-spring (Iceland's pagan poet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "stone-spring (iceland's pagan poet)".

Steinunn Refsdóttir (c. 950-c. 1010) was the Icelandic skaldic poet who, when the Christian missionary Þangbrandr came to Iceland, composed scornful pagan verses against him, claiming Thor had crashed his ship.

Featured in Njáls saga and Kristni saga.

Stone-spring (Iceland's pagan poet) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Steinunn
Transliteration
Steinunn
Pronunciation
/ ˈsteɪ.nʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Steinunn stands.

Steinunn 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.

Steinunns before her.

Real people
Steinunn Refsdóttir
Icelandic skaldic poet.
c. 950 – c. 1010
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic novelist.
born 1950
In fiction
Steinunn
Featured in Njáls saga.

Names connected to Steinunn.

The number behind Steinunn.

8

The Visionary

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