Boy · Old Norse
Snorri
Say it: SNOR-ree
Meaning
Uncertain; often linked to Old Norse snerra 'onslaught, fight', but this is not settled.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
A saga-age name still used in Iceland.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
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
Famous bearers
- Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian and author of the Prose Edda
- Snorri Þorfinnsson, said in the sagas to be the first European born in the Americas
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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