Entry № 3898 · Icelandic origin

Gunnvor Gunnvor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A watchful warrior"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a watchful warrior".

Gunnvor is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a watchful warrior.

A watchful warrior — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Gunnvor
Transliteration
Gunnvor
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gunnvor is built from.

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

gunnr
Old Norse
“battle”
vǫr
Old Norse
“watchful”

Where Gunnvor stands.

Gunnvor 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.

Gunnvors before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gunnvor.

The number behind Gunnvor.

3

The Communicator

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