Girl · Old Norse
Herdís
Say it: HER-dees
Meaning
From Old Norse herr 'army' and dís 'goddess, woman'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A saga-age name in regular use in modern Iceland.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 13 babies given this name since 1931
- At its height in 1931, about 1 in 173,300 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Herdis
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Where this comes from
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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