Entry № 3584 · Old Norse origin

Gefjon Gefjon — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GEF-yon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Giver (Norse goddess who plowed Zealand)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "giver (norse goddess who plowed zealand)".

Gefjon (Gefjun) is the Old Norse goddess whose name means "giver." According to Snorri, she plowed the island of Zealand out of Sweden by transforming her four sons into oxen — the iconic Gefion Fountain in Copenhagen (1908) commemorates the legend.

Goddess of plowing, fertility, virginity.

Giver (Norse goddess who plowed Zealand) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Gefjun
Transliteration
Gefjun
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡɛf.jɒn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gefjon stands.

Gefjon 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.

Gefjons before her.

Real people
Gefjon
Norse goddess.
In fiction
Gefjon
Featured in the Prose Edda.
13th c.

Names connected to Gefjon.

The number behind Gefjon.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gefjon reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.