Entry № 10581 · Old Norse origin

Thyra Thyra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Goddess (Thyra Dannebod, Danish queen)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Scandinavian)

A name that means "goddess (thyra dannebod, danish queen)".

Thyra is from the Old Norse Þýri — possibly meaning "helpful" or "useful," related to the god Thor. Thyra Dannebod (c. 870-c. 935) — Queen of Denmark and wife of King Gorm the Old; mother of King Harald Bluetooth (after whom the wireless Bluetooth technology was named); one of the queens of medieval Denmark; the Jelling Stones (rune stones erected by Harald Bluetooth) — UNESCO World Heritage Site — commemorate her; she is credited in oral tradition with completing the Danevirke defensive wall against German invasions; one of the most-iconic figures in early Danish history. Thyra Boldsen — Danish sculptor. Thyra Heder — modern American author and illustrator.

Goddess (Old Norse). Queen Thyra Dannebod (c.

The name in its native script.

Þýri
Transliteration
Þýri
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thyra stands.

Thyra 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.

Thyras before her.

Real people
Thyra Dannebod
Queen of Denmark; Harald Bluetooth's mother.
c. 870 – c. 935
In fiction
Thyra
Modern Scandinavian naming.

Names connected to Thyra.

The number behind Thyra.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Thyra reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.