Entry № 11043 · Norse origin

Vagnhild Vagnhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"A warrior maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a warrior maiden".

Vagnhild is a name of Norse origin, meaning a warrior maiden.

A warrior maiden — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Vagnhild
Transliteration
Vagnhild
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Vagnhild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Vagnhild stands.

Vagnhild 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.

Vagnhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Vagnhild.

The number behind Vagnhild.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vagnhild reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.