Guðrún

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Guðrún, Gudrun
GenderFemale
Origin
Meaninggod + secret lore[1]
Region of originScandinavia

Guðrún is one of the most frequently given female names in Iceland. In 2004, it was ranked first before Anna and Sigríður.[2][3] According to Icelandic custom, people are generally referred to by first and middle names and patronyms are used if disambiguation is required. The name is earliest attested in a runestone as kuþrun.[1] In Old Norse, Goðrún was an alternative version. The Faroese equivalent is Guðrun and the mainland Scandinavian version is Gudrun. The Old Norse name is composed of the elements guð or goð, meaning "god"; and rūn, meaning "rune", "secret lore". The Scandinavian Gudrun was revived in the last half of the 19th century.[4] Gudrun was also in regular use for girls in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, a time when the names of heroines from Germanic myth, literature, and music were in vogue.[5]

Notable people called Guðrún

Gudrun

See also

  • Gudrun, major figure in early Germanic literature

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gudrun". Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore (in svenska). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. Statistics Iceland
  3. Lonely Planet Iceland Fran Parnell, Etain O'Carroll - 2007 - Page 23 "Most popular girl's name: Guðrún"
  4. Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Hardcastle, Kate (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of Names (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
  5. Laversuch, I.M. (December 2010), "Margarete and Sulamith under the Swastika: Girls' Names in Nazi Germany", Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 58 (4): 219–30