Entry № 4157 · Icelandic origin

Heidrun Heidrun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A bright rune"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a bright rune".

Heidrun is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a bright rune.

A bright rune — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Heidrun
Transliteration
Heidrun
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Heidrun is built from.

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

rún
Old Norse
“secret lore, rune”

Where Heidrun stands.

Heidrun 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.

Heidruns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Heidrun.

The number behind Heidrun.

7

The Seeker

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