Entry № 11290 · Old Norse origin

Vigdis Vigdis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEEG-deess /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"War-goddess (first elected female head of state)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "war-goddess (first elected female head of state)".

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 1930) was the President of Iceland (1980-1996) — the world's first directly elected female head of state, and Iceland's longest-serving president. A divorced single mother elected by a landslide.

Used widely in modern Iceland and Norway.

War-goddess (first elected female head of state) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Vigdís
Transliteration
Vigdís
Pronunciation
/ ˈviːɡ.dɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

What Vigdis is built from.

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

dís
Old Norse
“goddess, lady”

Where Vigdis stands.

Vigdis 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.

Vigdiss before her.

Real people
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
President of Iceland.
born 1930
In fiction
Vigdis
Common in Norse fiction.

Names connected to Vigdis.

The number behind Vigdis.

7

The Seeker

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