Entry № 4356 · Icelandic origin

Hrafnhildur Hrafnhildur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A raven in battle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a raven in battle".

Hrafnhildur is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a raven in battle.

A raven in battle — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Hrafnhildur
Transliteration
Hrafnhildur
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Hrafnhildur is built from.

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

hildr
Old Norse
“battle”

Where Hrafnhildur stands.

Hrafnhildur 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.

Hrafnhildurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Hrafnhildur.

The number behind Hrafnhildur.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hrafnhildur reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.