300+ Viking Names

Birna is unlikely to be a hit in the US, but it's a current favorite in Iceland. Birna is also used in Finland and Scandinavia.

The form of Gertrude found in German and much of Scandinavia.

In Norse mythology, Rǫskva was the daughter of a peasant farmer who became a servant of Thor, along with her brother Þjálfi.

A softer, less vowelly variation of Peter, that appears in the Welsh Bible but not currently in the charts there. The Welsh name for daffodils, the national flower of Wales, is cennin pedr, "Peter's leeks".

Åge is a common element of Scandinavian names — in Sweden, it's a nickname for August — but it's also a given name in its own right. It comes from the Old Norse name Áki, meaning "ancestor".

Icelandic form of Margaret, currently in the Top 50 girl names there.

The original Old Norse form of the name we know today as Odin, and the most popular version in modern Iceland.

Steinunnr is now obsolete in its native region, having been replaced by the more modern Steinunn — currently a fashionable choice in Iceland.

The modern form of Þórdís.