Entry № 3726 · Norse origin

Gna Gna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GNAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Norse messenger goddess + Frigg's herald"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Norse)

A name that means "norse messenger goddess + frigg's herald".

Gna is from the Old Norse Gná (to tower, to rise high). Gna is one of the Asynjur goddesses attested in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (13th c.) — Gylfaginning chapter 35. She is the messenger of Queen Frigg (Odin's wife and queen of the Æsir) — riding her horse Hófvarpnir (Hoof-Thrower) across sky, sea, and air.

Towering (Old Norse).

The name in its native script.

Gná
Transliteration
Gná
Pronunciation
/ ɡnɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gna stands.

Gna 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.

Gnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Gna (Norse)
Norse messenger goddess.

Names connected to Gna.

The number behind Gna.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gna reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.