Entry № 10202 · German origin

Swanhild Swanhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A swan in battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a swan in battle".

Swanhild is a name of German origin, meaning a swan in battle.

A swan in battle — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Swanhild
Transliteration
Swanhild
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Swanhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Swanhild stands.

Swanhild 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.

Swanhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Swanhild.

The number behind Swanhild.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Swanhild reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.