Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Gríðr

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

1) Old Norse gríð = 'vehemence', 'greed', 'eagerness' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Old Norse grið = 'peace', 'protection', 'mercy', 'truce' [1] [5]

Related Names

Grid ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Gríð ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Norse
Gríðr ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Norse

Combinations

For combination see GRID (name element)

Further Information

Norse Mythology

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[7]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Gríðr.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/


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