Norse Girl Names

Old Norse names came to Britain and Ireland with settlement rather than fashion, and they left more place names than personal ones. The modern revival is a separate event with a separate cause: the mythology, which is why gods barely used as names in the Norse period are used now.

Languages behind these names Old Norse Norse

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6 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in the United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Halle Halle is a girl's name with a Norse and Germanic background, usually given as rock or as a form of a name meaning army ruler.
Norse 491 in 2025
Liv Liv is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "protection," which modern Scandinavian speakers reinterpret as "life" because it now resembles that word.
Norse 296 in 2025
Mikaela Peaked in 1997 · 24,976 births since 1966
Norse 241 in 2025
Erica Erica is a girl's name with two independent sources: the feminine of Eric, meaning eternal ruler, and the botanical Latin name of heather.
Norse 156 in 2025
Brenda Brenda is a girl's name from an Old Norse word for a sword or a torch, and it appears to have been invented for a novel — Walter Scott used it in The Pirate in 1822, and no earlier use is recorded.
Norse 139 in 2025
India Peaked in 2001 · 34,643 births since 1880
Norse 118 in 2025

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