Heiðrún

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name, combination of HEID and RUN

Related Names

Hedrun	♀
Heidrun	♀
Heiðrun	♀
Heiðrún	♀

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Heiðrún
Accusative:	Heiðrún
Dative:	Heiðrún
Genitive:	Heiðrúnar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Heiðrún
Accusative:	Heiðrúnu
Dative:	Heiðrúnu
Genitive:	Heiðrúnar

Further Information

In the Norse Mythology, Heiðrún is a goat which stands on Valhalla and eats the leaves on the tree Læraðr. Clear mead flows from her udder into the beakers of the Einherjar. In the Hyndluljóð, Hyndla insults Freyja with the remark that she is as sex-mad as Heiðrún. ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Female ♀	Male ♂	Commonness
Iceland[2] #	312
Denmark[3] #	4	0
Faroe Islands[4] #	4	0
Sweden[5] #	0	0
Finland[6] &	1	0
#: 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 Heiðrún.

Sources: ^{[5] [3] [7] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
2. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Hagstova Føroya, Statistics Faroe Islands, http://www.hagstova.fo/
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no