Icelandic Girl Names
Icelandic naming preserves many northern forms alongside names shared more widely in Scandinavia. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Bríanna; in U.S. records from 1963. | 1,372#222 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Kristín; in U.S. records from 1932. | 29#4,705 | Down 1,584 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Rósa; in U.S. records from 1880. | 441#653 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Íris; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Mýra; in U.S. records from 1880. | 429#663 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 1958 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Jóhanna; in U.S. records from 1880. | 309#871 | Down 226 rank positions in five years | 1984 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Lára; in U.S. records from 1887. | 409#693 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1892. | 818#376 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Margrét; in U.S. records from 1880. | 21#5,842 | Up 2,405 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Fríða; in U.S. records from 1892. | 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1895 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Elín; in U.S. records from 1893. | 53#3,077 | Down 1,496 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1880. | 10#9,711 | Down 1,102 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1994. | 352#772 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Þóra; in U.S. records from 1883. | 20#6,092 | Down 2,698 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1882. | —Unranked | — | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Dagný; in U.S. records from 1893. | 24#5,278 | Down 1,426 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Addý; in U.S. records from 1974. | 30#4,546 | Down 999 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Sólveig; in U.S. records from 1909. | 17#6,790 | Down 966 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1895. | 9#10,314 | Up 3,578 rank positions in five years | 1930 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1885. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Árna; in U.S. records from 1903. | 15#7,175 | Down 2,521 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Guðrún; in U.S. records from 1895. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1979. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1987. | —Unranked | — | 1997 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1998. | 11#9,216 | Down 993 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Ásta; in U.S. records from 1914. | 27#4,893 | new | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1996. | 17#6,783 | Up 1,545 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 1993. | 5#15,346 | new | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Hjördís; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1926 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic as Sigrún; in U.S. records from 1921. | —Unranked | — | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 2021. | —Unranked | — | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 2022. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Icelandic; in U.S. records from 2025. | 5#17,202 | new | 2025 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.