Entry № 10614 · Swedish origin

Tindra Tindra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TIN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swedish
Meaning
"To twinkle / sparkle (modern Swedish nature word)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Swedish)

A name that means "to twinkle / sparkle (modern swedish nature word)".

Tindra is from the Swedish tindra — to twinkle or sparkle (as stars do). Tindra Renvinge — Swedish historical figure. Tindra Hansson — modern Swedish dancer. Tindra Eklund — Swedish dressage rider. Tindra (Swedish folklore) — appears in some regional Swedish fairy tales as a star-spirit; the word is connected to the broader Nordic tradition of stjärnor (stars) being seen as souls or messengers in pre-Christian Norse cosmology.

To twinkle / sparkle.

The name in its native script.

Tindra
Transliteration
Tindra
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɪn.drə /
Root
—
Grammatical form
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Where Tindra stands.

Tindra 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.

Tindras before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Tindra
Modern Swedish nature word.

Names connected to Tindra.

The number behind Tindra.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tindra reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.