Hjördis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hjördis är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt hiǫrr (urnordiskt *herur) ’svärd’ och dís ’dis, kvinnlig gudom’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hjördis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 586
- SESweden1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hjördis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 586 (inferred from the name graph)
3,041 people
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hjordis in US United States, NO Norway, AO Angola and Hjördís in IS Iceland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hjördis är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt hiǫrr (urnordiskt *herur) ’svärd’ och dís ’dis, kvinnlig gudom’. Namnet började användas i Sverige i samband med den nordiska namnrenässansen (se Inledning). I de isländska sagorna var Hjördis mor till Sigurd Fafnesbane. I den rikssvenska almanackan 3 februari och i den finlandssvenska 11 juni.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hjördis is read(measured from records)
Hjördis is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German51%
) Jördis: im 20. Jh. entlehnter weibl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft (altnord.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Swedish33%
Hjördis är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt hiǫrr (urnordiskt *herur) ’svärd’ och dís ’dis, kvinnlig gudom’. Namnet började användas i Sverige i samband med den nordiska namnrenässansen (se Inledning). I de isländska sagorna var Hjördis mor till Sigurd Fafnesbane. I den rikssvenska almanackan 3 februari och i den finlandssvenska 11 juni.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hjördis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
3,041 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hjördis 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.
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the elements hjorr sword + dís goddess.
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hjördis Nordin-Tengbomb. 1877SESwedish sculptor (1877-1969)
- Hjördis Lind-Campbellb. 1891SESwedish physician
- Pia Ravennab. 1894FInot in their usual nameFinnish opera singer (1894–1964)
- Hjördis Töpelb. 1904SEswimmer (1904-1987)
- Hjördis Pettersonb. 1908SESwedish actress (1908–1988)
- Hjördis Schymbergb. 1909SEsinger (1909-2008)
- Marita Nordbergb. 1929FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress (1929-2009)
- Hjördis Levinb. 1930SESwedish historian, author
- Hjördis Nordinb. 1932SESwedish artistic gymnast
- Hjördis Piuva Anderssonb. 1933SEpainter and writer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 3.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 3.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 3.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 3.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 3.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 3.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 3.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 3.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3K | #827 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hjördis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hjördis är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt hiǫrr (urnordiskt *herur) ’svärd’ och dís ’dis, kvinnlig gudom’.
- Is Hjördis a male or female name?
- Hjördis 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.
- In which country does Hjördis have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Hjördis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hjördis.
- Where is Hjördis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hjördis is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 586 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hjördis?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,041 people named Hjördis, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Hjördis compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Hjördis is the 398th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hjördis” — the 398th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.