Entry № 7680 · Old Norse origin

Oddny Oddny — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ODD-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"New spear-point"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "new spear-point".

Oddny joins oddr (the point of a weapon) with ny (new) — a fresh, keen edge. It carries sharpness and bright beginnings.

It reads keen and clear, a bright new point.

New spear-point — a Old Norse name of grace and heritage.

The name in its native script.

Oddny
Transliteration
Oddny
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔd.nyː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Oddny stands.

Oddny 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.

Oddnys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Oddny.

The number behind Oddny.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Oddny reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.