Sif

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Iceland Icelandic
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse sif = 'wife, bride' [1] [2]

2) Old Norse sifjar = 'affinity, connexion by marriage' [1] [2] [3]

3) Short form of Elisiv and its variant forms [1]

Related Names

     
Sif ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Icelandic Norwegian Old Norse Swedish
Siff ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Siv ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Siw ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Sivan ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Siwan ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Sive ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish
Sive ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Siver ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian Swedish

See also Siviä

Combinations

For combinations see SIV (name element)

Grammar

Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Sif
Accusative: Sif
Dative: Sif
Genitive: Sifjar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1871 (in modern times) [1]

Mythology

In Norse mythology, Sif is an Ásynja with golden hair, believed to help crops grow. She was originally married to Njǫrðr and became the wife of Þórr after the war against the Vanir. She is the mother of Ullr.

When Loki cut off all her hair out of pure malice, Þórr took Loki and would have broken every bone in his body if he had not sworn to get the Svartálfar to make hair which would grow like real hair for Sif out of gold. Loki went to the dwarfs Brokkr and Sindri who forged Sif's hair. [2] [4] [5]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 892 n.a. 0 n.a
Sweden Sweden[7] Statimg f3.pngStatimg m1.png 334 501 1 2
Norway Norway[8] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m0.png 12 30 0 0
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 7 n.a 7
  #: 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 Sif.

Sources: [7] [6] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  5. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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