Entry № 10139 · Old Norse origin

Sunneva Sunneva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOON-neh-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Sun gift (Saint Sunniva of Norway)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Norwegian)

A name that means "sun gift (saint sunniva of norway)".

1100); her relics were translated to Bergen in 1170; her feast day is July 8; one of the figures of medieval Norwegian Christianity. Sunneva Bryn-Jenkins — modern Norwegian-American figure. Sunniva Brennan — Norwegian artist. Princess Sunniva — modern Norwegian heritage naming.

Sun gift (Saint Sunniva of Norway) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Sunneva
Transliteration
Sunneva
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuːn.nɛ.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sunneva stands.

Sunneva 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.

Sunnevas before her.

Real people
Saint Sunniva
Patron saint of Western Norway.
c. 10th c.
Sunniva Sorby
Norwegian South Pole explorer.
modern
In fiction
Sunneva
Old Norse sun gift.

Names connected to Sunneva.

The number behind Sunneva.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sunneva reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.