Entry № 4998 · Old Norse origin

Jorunn Jorunn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOR-unn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Love of the chieftain"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "love of the chieftain".

It carries warmth and high regard.

Love of the chieftain — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Jorunn
Transliteration
Jorunn
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoːr.ʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jorunn stands.

Jorunn 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.

Jorunns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Jorunn.

The number behind Jorunn.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jorunn reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.