Entry № 10953 · Old Norse origin

Urd Urd — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OORD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Past, fate (eldest of the three Norns)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "past, fate (eldest of the three norns)".

Urd (Urðr) is from the Old Norse urðr (fate, that which has become). Eldest of the three Norns — the Norse goddesses of fate — representing the past, what has been. Her well, the Well of Urd at the foot of Yggdrasil, is the source of all destiny.

Featured in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.

Past, fate (eldest of the three Norns) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Urðr
Transliteration
Urðr
Pronunciation
/ ʊrd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urd stands.

Urd 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.

Urds before her.

Real people
Urd
Norse goddess of fate.
In fiction
Urd
Featured in Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Names connected to Urd.

The number behind Urd.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Urd reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.