Entry № 10928 · Old Norse origin

Unn Unn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OON /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"To be loved; a wave"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "to be loved; a wave".

Unn comes from unnr — to love, and also a wave of the sea. It is short, deep and gentle, holding both affection and the ocean.

To be loved; a wave — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Unn
Transliteration
Unn
Pronunciation
/ ʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Unn stands.

Unn 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.

Unns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Unn.

The number behind Unn.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Unn reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.