Female Norse Name Generator

Old Norse women's names were assembled from the same stock of meaningful elements as men's, just with feminine endings. The commonest second elements are -hildr (battle: Ragnhildr, Brynhildr, Úlfhildr), -dís (goddess or lady: Þórdís, Vigdís, Ásdís), -gerðr (enclosure, protection: Þorgerðr, Valgerðr, Ingigerðr), -ríðr (beloved: Guðríðr, Sigríðr, Ástríðr), -rún (secret: Guðrún, Sigrún, Oddrún), -laug (promised: Áslaug, Guðlaug), -vǫr (aware: Gunnvǫr, Steinvǫr) and -bjǫrg (help: Ingibjǫrg, Þorbjǫrg). First elements are shared with men: Þór-, Ás- and Guð- invoke the gods, Sig- is victory, Ragn- counsel, Arn- eagle, Hall- stone. Short single-element names were just as common: Helga, Þóra, Halla, Katla, Unnr, Ása.

A full name was the given name plus a patronymic in -dóttir, with the father's name in the genitive: Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Þorgerðr Egilsdóttir. Women of note picked up bynames instead, which is how the sagas remember Auðr in djúpúðga (the Deep-Minded), Hallgerðr langbrók (Long-Breeches), Sigríðr stórráða (the Haughty) and Þorbjǫrg lítilvǫlva (the Little Seeress).

This generator keeps the normalized Old Norse spelling with þ, ð and accented vowels, mixing saga and historical women, bare given names and original but correctly formed full names, so every result would pass in a tenth-century Icelandic farmstead or a Viking-era novel.