Entry № 11122 · Norse origin

Var Var — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Norse goddess of covenants + sworn oaths"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Norse)

A name that means "norse goddess of covenants + sworn oaths".

Var is from the Old Norse Vár (pledge, vow) — Norse goddess of contracts and sworn oaths. Var is one of the Asynjur goddesses attested in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (13th c.) — Gylfaginning chapter 35, where she hears all oaths between lovers and punishes those who break them. Mentioned in the Þrymskviða (Poetic Edda).

Pledge / vow (Old Norse).

The name in its native script.

Vár
Transliteration
Vár
Pronunciation
/ vɑːr /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Var stands.

Var 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.

Vars before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Var (Norse)
Norse goddess of covenants.

Names connected to Var.

The number behind Var.

5

The Seeker

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