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“breastplate” + “battle, fight”
/ˈpɾiːnɪlt/ · Faroese
01 / Meaning & origin
Brynhild is a feminine given name documented in Danish, Finnish, Faroese and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Brynhildr, from the components “breastplate” + “battle, fight”.
Meaning: “breastplate” + “battle, fight”
From Old Norse Brynhildr, from Proto-Germanic *Brunjōhildiz, from *brunjǭ (“breastplate”) + *hildiz (“battle, fight”).
02 / Across borders
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Norway, 1994: 4 girls (rank 606). Documented as a given name in Norwegian.
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03 / By the numbers
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1945–2025 Spelling: Brynhild
Recorded category girls
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 15 | 226 | observed |
| 1946 | 26 | 170 | observed |
| 1947 | 17 | 216 | observed |
| 1948 | 17 | 213 | observed |
| 1949 | 14 | 236 | observed |
| 1950 | 12 | 246 | observed |
| 1951 | 17 | 208 | observed |
| 1952 | 14 | 235 | observed |
| 1953 | 17 | 210 | observed |
| 1954 | 8 | 313 | observed |
| 1955 | 12 | 263 | observed |
| 1956 | 11 | 260 | observed |
| 1957 | 18 | 196 | observed |
| 1958 | 9 | 310 | observed |
| 1959 | 16 | 216 | observed |
| 1960 | 14 | 233 | observed |
| 1961 | 9 | 313 | observed |
| 1962 | 8 | 329 | observed |
| 1963 | 7 | 381 | observed |
| 1964 | 10 | 317 | observed |
| 1965 | 6 | 438 | observed |
| 1966 | 5 | 457 | observed |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | 10 | 340 | observed |
| 1969 | 5 | 481 | observed |
| 1970 | 7 | 426 | observed |
| 1971 | 4 | 554 | observed |
| 1972 | 7 | 455 | observed |
| 1973 | 5 | 517 | observed |
| 1974 | 6 | 481 | observed |
| 1975 | 7 | 449 | observed |
| 1976 | 7 | 449 | observed |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | 5 | 541 | observed |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | 4 | 608 | observed |
| 1981 | 5 | 560 | observed |
| 1982 | 5 | 567 | observed |
| 1983 | 5 | 562 | observed |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | 4 | 606 | observed |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Brynhild” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
BRYNHILD— “breast-plate battle maid”
By-and-by the two sisters-in-law had a desperate quarrel about precedence; in the old northern version, which should wade farthest into the Rhine when bathing; in the half-civilized German song, which should first enter the cathedral of Wurms; and in the course of it Brynhild was roundly informed that she had not given way to her husband, but to Siegfried. Valkyr nature could not stand such an affront, so Brynhild set on Hagen to assassinate Siegfried. The northern story…
By-and-by the two sisters-in-law had a desperate quarrel about precedence; in the old northern version, which should wade farthest into the Rhine when bathing; in the half-civilized German song, which should first enter the cathedral of Wurms; and in the course of it Brynhild was roundly informed that she had not given way to her husband, but to Siegfried. Valkyr nature could not stand such an affront, so Brynhild set on Hagen to assassinate Siegfried. The northern story makes her slay herself, and be burnt with his corpse on a funeral pile, in Suttee fashion; the German tames her into being merely brought to repentance too late by the death of her husband.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section III (Brynhild) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
