Entry № 11824 · Old Norse origin

Yrsa Yrsa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EER-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"She-bear"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "she-bear".

Yrsa is an Old Norse name possibly meaning "she-bear" — used in the legendary Hrólfs saga, where Yrsa is the queen and mother of King Hrólfr Kraki.

Yrsa is widely used in modern Iceland. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963) is a contemporary Icelandic novelist.

She-bear. The Icelandic saga queen.

The name in its native script.

Yrsa
Transliteration
Yrsa
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪər.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yrsa stands.

Yrsa 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.

Yrsas before her.

Real people
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic crime novelist.
born 1963
In fiction
Yrsa
Queen in the Hrólfs saga kraka.
13th-century saga

Names connected to Yrsa.

The number behind Yrsa.

9

The Giver

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