Entry № 9838 · Norse origin

Snotra Snotra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SNOH-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Norse
Meaning
"Norse goddess of wisdom + clever one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Norse)

A name that means "norse goddess of wisdom + clever one".

Snotra is from the Old Norse snotr (wise, clever) — Norse goddess of wisdom, courtesy, and self-discipline. Snotra is one of the Asynjur (female Æsir) goddesses of Norse mythology, attested in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (13th century). Listed among the Norse goddesses in Gylfaginning chapter 35, where she is described as the wise and gentle one — and the goddess from whom a wise man takes the kenning snotr (clever, wise). Modern Scandinavian feminist scholarship has reclaimed Snotra as a figure of female intellectual heritage in pre-Christian Norse religion.

Norse goddess of wisdom + clever one — a Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Snotra
Transliteration
Snotra
Pronunciation
/ ˈsnoʊ.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Snotra stands.

Snotra 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.

Snotras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Snotra (Norse)
Norse goddess of wisdom.

Names connected to Snotra.

The number behind Snotra.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Snotra reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.