Cinnabar's Personal Name List

Variant of Axel.

Scandinavian form of Andreas (see Andrew). A famous bearer was the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814-1874).

Short form of Astrid.

Danish and Norwegian form of Björn.

Means "armour" in Old Norse.

Danish diminutive of Cecilia.

Modern form of Eir.

Scandinavian form of Eric. This was the name of kings of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. King Erik IX of Sweden (12th century) is the patron saint of that country.

Variant of Asbjørn.

Short form of Margrethe.

Short form of Johannes.

Scandinavian form of Ivor.

Scandinavian feminine diminutive of Jan 1, from Low German.

Danish form of John.

From the Old Norse name Jórunnr, derived from the elements jǫfurr "boar" and unna "to love".

Danish form of Jutta.

Meaning uncertain, possibly a Frisian diminutive of Gerhard, Nicolaas, Cornelis or Gaius [1]. It is borne by a boy captured by the Snow Queen in an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Spreading from Germany and Scandinavia, this name became popular in the English-speaking world and other places in Western Europe around the end of the 20th century.

Scandinavian diminutive of Katarina.

Norwegian short form of Katarina.

Form of Katya in various languages.

Scandinavian form of Kenneth.

From the Old Norse name Ketill meaning "kettle, cauldron" (later also acquiring the meaning "helmet"). In old Scandinavian rituals the ketill was used to catch the blood of sacrificed animals.

Norwegian form of Christina.

Variant of Ketil.

Means "lark" in Danish.

Scandinavian form of Laurence 1.

Scandinavian and Finnish form of Laurence 1.

From the Old Norse name Leifr meaning "descendant, heir". Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer who reached North America in the early 11th century. He was the son of Erik the Red.

From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus named it after himself, it being his favourite flower.

Variant of Linnéa.

Derived from the Old Norse name Hlíf meaning "protection". Its use has been influenced by the modern Scandinavian word liv meaning "life".

Danish diminutive of Marina or Maria.

Norwegian and Swedish form of Margaret.

Medieval Danish variant of Margrethe.

Variant of Olaf.

Feminine form of Olav.

Scandinavian and Breton form of Peter.

From the Old Norse name Hreiðarr, which was derived from the elements hreiðr "nest, home" and herr "army, warrior".

Derived from the Old Norse elements rún "secret lore, rune" and herr "army, warrior". This name did not exist in Old Norse, but was created in the modern era.

Dutch, Estonian, Danish and Norwegian short form of Alexander.

Dutch and Danish short form of Susanna.

German and Scandinavian form of Severinus.

Modern Scandinavian form of Signý.

Norwegian form of Sindri.

Means "sparkle" in Old Norse. In Norse mythology this was the name of a dwarf, also named Eitri. With his brother Brokkr he made several magical items for the gods, including Odin's ring Draupnir and Thor's hammer Mjölnir.

Short form of Sigrid.

Norwegian variant form of Cecilia.

Derived from Old Norse snerra "attack, onslaught". This name was borne by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century Icelandic historian and poet, the author of the Prose Edda.

Means "buttercup (flower)" in Icelandic (genus Ranunculus), derived from sól "sun" and ey "island".

From an Old Norse name, which was derived from the elements sól "sun" and veig "strength". This is the name of the heroine in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (1876).

Danish form of Severinus. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as a precursor of existentialism.

Scandinavian form of the Old English name Sunngifu, which meant "sun gift" from the Old English elements sunne "sun" and giefu "gift". This was the name of a legendary English saint who was shipwrecked in Norway and killed by the inhabitants.

From the Old Norse byname Sveinn meaning "boy". This was the name of kings of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Means "lilac" in Swedish and Danish.

It could be also a variant of the English word siren meaning "mermaid".

Short form of Dorothea, Theodora and other names containing a similar sound.

Modern Scandinavian form of Þórr (see Thor). It was not used as a personal name until the 18th century. It is sometimes used as a short form of names of Old Norse origin that begin with the element Tor, which is also a derivative of Þórr.

Norwegian form of Torbjörn.

Modern form of the Old Norse name Tófa, a short form of Þórfríðr.

Scandinavian form of Waldemar, also used as a translation of the Slavic cognate Vladimir. This was the name of four kings of Denmark and a king of Sweden. It was introduced to Scandinavia by the 12th-century Danish king Valdemar I who was named after his mother's grandfather: Vladimir II, a grand prince of Kievan Rus.

Means "chooser of the slain", derived from Old Norse valr "the slain" and kyrja "chooser". In Norse myth the Valkyries were maidens who led heroes killed in battle to Valhalla.

From Old Norse Víðarr, which was possibly derived from víðr "wide" and herr "army, warrior". In Norse mythology Víðarr was the son of Odin and Grid. At the time of the end of the world, Ragnarök, it is said he will avenge his father's death by slaying the wolf Fenrir.