Urðr

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

Old Norse 'urðr' = 'fate', 'destiny', 'death' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Urd
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Danish Norwegian Swedish
Urð
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Faroese
Urda
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Finish Norwegian Swedish
Urða
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Faroese
Urðr
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Old Norse
Urður
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Icelandic

Further Information

Norse Mythology

  • Urðr is one of the three Norns. The is the Norn of what has happened, of the past. She is the oldest of the three Norns of fate and she watches over the well Urðarbrunnr. [6] [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Urðr.


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  3. Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  4. Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  7. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/