Urðr

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse 'urðr' = 'fate, destiny' ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Urd	♀
Urð	♀
Urda	♀
Urða	♀
Urðr	♀
Urður	♀

Further Information

Mythology

In the 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. ^{[4] [5]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		0	0	0	0
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[8]		0	0	0	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 Urðr.

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [9] [8]}

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. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
5. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no