Brynhild
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/brʏnhɪld/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brynhild is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 168K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
473 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brynhild 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.
473 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brynhild mean, and where does it come from?
- Valkyrie in Scandinavian legend Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Brynhild?
- A machine transcription gives /brʏnhɪld/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- 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.
- In which country does Brynhild have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 473 people named Brynhild, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Brynhild most common?
- Brynhild is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Brynhild?
- In Norway, the national register counted 473 people named Brynhild in 2025, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Brynhild?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brynhildThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Brynhild”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.