Entry № 10148 · Icelandic origin

Svanhildur Svanhildur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "a swan in battle".

Svanhildur is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a swan in battle.

A swan in battle — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Svanhildur
Transliteration
Svanhildur
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Svanhildur is built from.

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

hildr
Old Norse
“battle”

Where Svanhildur stands.

Svanhildur 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.

Svanhildurs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Svanhildur.

The number behind Svanhildur.

2

The Peacemaker

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