300+ Viking Names

The slashed O form of Bjorn is standard in Norway and Denmark. The umlaut variation, Björn is used in most other languages today.

An Icelandic name, derived from Old Norse.

The original Old Norse form of Idunn, the goddess of apples, fertility, and youth. Iðunn is currently popular in Iceland, while Idunn is the preferred varation in much of Scandinavia.

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".

Skathi is an Anglicized spelling of Skaði, a Scandinavian goddess associated with winter, skiing, bowhunting and mountains. Skathi, also spelled Skadi, is also a moon of Saturn.

The modern form of Þórdís.

In Norse mythology, Urðr was one of three goddesses of destiny (or Norns) — she ruled over the past. Today, her name is typically modernized as Urd.

Icelandic short form of Birgitta, which may derive from the Irish Brighid "exalted one" or from the male Norse name Birger, meaning "help, rescue". A famous bearer is Icelandic feminist Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856-1940), founder of the first women's magazine in Iceland.

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

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