Ymir is from the Old Norse — the iconic foundational name of the foundational primordial giant of Norse mythology + adopted by iconic foundational Attack on Titan. A modern American baby name in the broader Norse mythology + Japanese anime heritage aesthetic. Ymir in Norse mythology — the foundational primordial giant + first being in the iconic foundational Norse cosmogonic myth; appears throughout the iconic foundational Poetic Edda + **Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson, 13th century) — widely considered the foundational literary sources of Norse mythology; widely considered the foundational ancestor of all the foundational Jötnar (giants) of Norse mythology; the iconic foundational myth of Odin + his brothers slaying Ymir + creating the world from his foundational body — earth from flesh, sea from blood, sky from skull, mountains from bones — is widely considered one of the foundational creation myths in world religion. Ymir Fritz + Ymir — iconic foundational female characters in the foundational Japanese manga/anime franchise Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin, 2009-2021); created by Hajime Isayama; widely considered one of the foundational manga + anime franchises of the 21st century*; the iconic foundational Attack on Titan manga has sold over 140 million copies worldwide; the iconic Ymir Fritz is the foundational Founding Titan + foundational ancestor of all Eldians + foundational founder of the iconic Eldian Empire (~1820 years before main story) — widely considered one of the foundational mythological figures in modern shonen anime; the iconic Ymir (Subjects of Ymir) is the foundational Jaw Titan + foundational close companion + romantic interest of iconic foundational Historia Reiss; the foundational Attack on Titan: The Final Season* (2020-2023) earned the iconic foundational Crunchyroll Anime of the Year (2022). Princess Ymir — modern Norse-anime heritage naming.
Featured throughout Norse mythology and Japanese anime.
Ymir 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ymir reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.