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Heiðrún
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse name
Combination of HEID and RUN [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
| Hedrun | ♀ |   |
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| Heidrun | ♀ |  |
  
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| Heiðrun | ♀ |  |
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| Heiðrún | ♀ | |
 
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Heiðrúnarson |
|
Female
| Heiðrúnardóttir |
|
Grammar
| - Faroese |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Heiðrún |
| Accusative: | Heiðrún |
| Dative: | Heiðrún |
| Genitive: | Heiðrúnar |
| - Icelandic |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Heiðrún |
| Accusative: | Heiðrúnu |
| Dative: | Heiðrúnu |
| Genitive: | Heiðrúnar |
Further Information
- Iceland: Officially approved as a given name [6]
- Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name [7]
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. [8]
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& | |
| Iceland[9] |
  |
364 | 402 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Denmark[10] |
|
6 | n.a. |
6 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Sweden[11] |
  |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Norway[12] |
|
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Greenland[14] |
|
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Heiðrún.
References
- ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/