Entry № 4240 · Old Norse origin

Hervor Hervor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HER-vor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Warrior of the host"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "warrior of the host".

Hervör (Hervǫr) comes from the Old Norse her (army, host) and vǫr (cautious, watchful) — meaning "warrior of the host" or "vigilant guardian." In the Saga of Hervör (13th century), Hervör is a shieldmaiden who takes up her dead father's sword Tyrfingr.

Hervör is rare even in modern Scandinavia.

Shieldmaiden of the saga. The vigilant warrior.

The name in its native script.

Hervǫr
Transliteration
Hervǫr
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛr.vɔːr /
Root
Grammatical form

What Hervor is built from.

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

heri
Germanic
“army”
vǫr
Old Norse
“watchful”

Where Hervor stands.

Hervor 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.

Hervors before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hervör
Heroine of the Norse Saga of Hervör.
13th century

Names connected to Hervor.

The number behind Hervor.

5

The Seeker

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