Entry № 3897 · Norse origin

Gunnlaug Gunnlaug — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Consecrated to battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "consecrated to battle".

Gunnlaug is a name of Norse origin, meaning consecrated to battle.

Consecrated to battle — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Gunnlaug
Transliteration
Gunnlaug
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gunnlaug is built from.

Gunnlaug is a compound name. Its parts are gunnr + laug — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

gunnr
Old Norse
“battle”
laug
Old Norse
“consecrated, vowed”

Where Gunnlaug stands.

Gunnlaug 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.

Gunnlaugs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gunnlaug.

The number behind Gunnlaug.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gunnlaug reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.