Entry № 424 · Icelandic origin

Alfdis Alfdis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"An elf goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "an elf goddess".

Alfdis is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning an elf goddess.

An elf goddess — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Alfdis
Transliteration
Alfdis
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Alfdis is built from.

Alfdis 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 Alfdis stands.

Alfdis 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.

Alfdiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Alfdis.

The number behind Alfdis.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alfdis reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.