Astrid comes from the Old Norse Ástríðr — composed of áss (god, deity, referring to the Norse gods or Æsir) and fríðr (beautiful, fair) — meaning "divinely beautiful" or "loved by the gods."
Astrid has been continuously used in Scandinavia for over a thousand years and was carried by several medieval Norwegian and Swedish queens. Today it sits in the U.S. top 350 and is rising fast.
Astrid does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Astrid reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.