Entry № 10935 · Icelandic origin

Unnur Unnur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OON-noor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A wave; to love"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a wave; to love".

Unnur means a wave of the sea, and echoes unna (to love).

A wave; to love — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Unnur
Transliteration
Unnur
Pronunciation
/ ˈʏn.nʏr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Unnur stands.

Unnur 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.

Unnurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Unnur.

The number behind Unnur.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Unnur reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.