Entry № 3840 · Icelandic origin

Gullveig Gullveig — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"The power of gold"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the power of gold".

Gullveig is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning the power of gold.

The power of gold — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Gullveig
Transliteration
Gullveig
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gullveig is built from.

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

veig
Old Norse
“strength, vigour”

Where Gullveig stands.

Gullveig 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.

Gullveigs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gullveig.

The number behind Gullveig.

5

The Seeker

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