Entry № 6009 · Old Norse origin

Lofn Lofn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Norse goddess of forbidden love"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "norse goddess of forbidden love".

Lofn (Old Norse) means "the comforter, the mild." The Norse goddess of forbidden love and difficult marriages — she had the special permission from Odin and Frigg to bring together lovers whose union was otherwise forbidden by social convention. Listed by Snorri Sturluson among the Asynjur.

Featured in Snorri's Prose Edda.

Mild comforter. Brings together lovers whose union is otherwise forbidden.

The name in its native script.

Lofn
Transliteration
Lofn
Pronunciation
/ lɒfn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lofn stands.

Lofn 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.

Lofns before her.

Real people
Lofn
Norse goddess.
In fiction
Lofn
Snorri's Prose Edda.

Names connected to Lofn.

The number behind Lofn.

2

The Peacemaker

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