Entry № 3448 · Old Norse origin

Freydis Freydis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FRAY-dis /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Lady of Freyr (Erik the Red's daughter; Vinland explorer)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "lady of freyr (erik the red's daughter; vinland explorer)".

Freydís Eiríksdóttir (c. According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, when their Vinland camp was attacked by Indigenous warriors and the Norse men fled, the pregnant Freydis seized a fallen sword, slapped it against her bare breast, and screamed so fiercely that the attackers fled in terror.

Lady of Freyr.

The name in its native script.

Freydís
Transliteration
Freydís
Pronunciation
/ ˈfreɪ.dɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

What Freydis is built from.

Freydis is a compound name. Its parts are dís — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

dís
Old Norse
“goddess, lady”

Where Freydis stands.

Freydis 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.

Freydiss before her.

Real people
Freydís Eiríksdóttir
Norse Vinland explorer.
c. 970 – ?
In fiction
Freydís
Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla.
2022

Names connected to Freydis.

The number behind Freydis.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Freydis reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.