Entry № 10614 · Swedish origin

Tindra Tindra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TIN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"To twinkle / sparkle (modern Swedish nature word)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Swedish)

A name that means "to twinkle / sparkle (modern swedish nature word)".

Tindra is from the Swedish tindra — to twinkle or sparkle (as stars do). Tindra Renvinge — Swedish historical figure. Tindra Hansson — modern Swedish dancer. Tindra Eklund — Swedish dressage rider. Tindra (Swedish folklore) — appears in some regional Swedish fairy tales as a star-spirit; the word is connected to the broader Nordic tradition of stjärnor (stars) being seen as souls or messengers in pre-Christian Norse cosmology.

To twinkle / sparkle.

The name in its native script.

Tindra
Transliteration
Tindra
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɪn.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tindra stands.

Tindra 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.

Tindras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tindra
Modern Swedish nature word.

Names connected to Tindra.

The number behind Tindra.

3

The Communicator

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