Brynhild
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brynhild is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend.
- NONorway1 in 12K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 168K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈554 ●
- Sources
- 45 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 6 countries
76 records
Reference-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 473△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.6K | — | 2 |
| FR France | 124 | 75 rec. | — | listed | Brynhild | 45 |
| DK Denmark | 35 | — | 1 in 168K | 35 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 35 | — | 1 in 292K | 35 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 8 | — | 1 in 696K | 72 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | — | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | — | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | — | 52 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Roughly 473 people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 12K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål1.6K61%
- Norwegian2419%
- Danish2128%
- English1797%
- French1235%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,626 | 61% |
| Norwegian | 241 | 9% |
| Danish | 212 | 8% |
| English | 179 | 7% |
| French | 123 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Brynhild is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Faroese, a female given name from Proto-Germanic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 15 |
| 1946 | 26 |
| 1947 | 17 |
| 1948 | 17 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 12 |
| 1951 | 17 |
| 1952 | 14 |
| 1953 | 17 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 12 |
| 1956 | 11 |
| 1957 | 18 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1994 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 37 years between 1945–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Brynhild Jakobsenb. 1885NONorwegian missionary
- Brynhild Bergeb. 1901NONorwegian diver
- Brynhild Strømb. 1903NOresistance fighter
- Brynhild Hauglandb. 1905USAmerican politician
- Brynhild Parkerb. 1907GBBritish painter (1907-1987)
- Brynhild Synstnesb. 1971NONorwegian distance runner
- Brynhild Marie Fossb. 1978NONorwegian politician
- Brynhild Djurhuus Carlssonb. 1991badminton player
- Brynhild Ree ValleNONorwegian author
- Brynhild MorkvedNObotanist (1943 - )
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Brynhild?
- We estimate roughly 554 people bear Brynhild (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Brynhild have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 473 people bear Brynhild in Norway, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Brynhild most common?
- Brynhild is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Brynhild a male or female name?
- Brynhild is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Brynhild mean?
- Recorded meaning: Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brynhild”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.