Entry № 11088 · Norse origin

Valfrid Valfrid — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"A chosen peace"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a chosen peace".

Valfrid is a name of Norse origin, meaning a chosen peace.

A chosen peace — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Valfrid
Transliteration
Valfrid
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Valfrid is built from.

Valfrid is a compound name. Its parts are valr + friþu — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

valr
Old Norse
“the chosen slain”
friþu
Germanic
“peace”

Where Valfrid stands.

Valfrid 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.

Valfrids before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Valfrid.

The number behind Valfrid.

9

The Giver

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