Entry № 11090 · Icelandic origin

Valgerdur Valgerdur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A chosen guardian"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a chosen guardian".

Valgerdur is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a chosen guardian.

A chosen guardian — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Valgerdur
Transliteration
Valgerdur
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Valgerdur is built from.

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

valr
Old Norse
“the chosen slain”
garðr
Old Norse
“protection”

Where Valgerdur stands.

Valgerdur 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.

Valgerdurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Valgerdur.

The number behind Valgerdur.

9

The Giver

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