Random Viking Name Generator

How this list was compiled: 620 full names of the Viking Age, built by script from 30 women's and 40 men's Old Norse given names and a patronymic from 14 fathers' names; each given name is dealt the same number of fathers. Given names: the Old Norse spelling and the meaning of each come from its own entry, fetched on 2026-09-30 through the MediaWiki API and saved in x.src: 63 from English Wiktionary (the Old Norse entry, or for Ingunn, Bera, Jódís and Herborg the entry that derives the modern name from Old Norse) and 7 from the English Wikipedia name article (Astrid, Ásdís, Hilda, Ingegerd, Sigrún, Tora and Alfhild). A script confirmed every printed gloss against the fetched text; words such as "probably", "possibly" and "debated" are the entry's own. Names whose entry gave no meaning were left out (Egill, Finnr, Oddný, Gyða, Rannveig and others). Patronymics: the father's name in the genitive plus -son or -dóttir, as the English Wikipedia articles Patronymic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic) and Icelandic name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name) describe. Only fathers whose Old Norse genitive is written out in their Wiktionary entry are used, so each form is the attested one: Finnr gives Finns, Þórir gives Þóris, Eilífr gives Eilífs, Eyvindr gives Eyvindar, Ǫnundr gives Ǫnundar, Þorbjǫrn gives Þorbjarnar, Ásbjǫrn gives Ásbjarnar, Snorri gives Snorra, Helgi gives Helga, Bjarni gives Bjarna, Áki gives Áka, Bragi gives Braga, Fróði gives Fróða, Sǫrli gives Sǫrla. Spelling in English: accents are dropped, þ is written th, ð is written d, ǫ is written o, and the nominative ending is dropped (Ástríðr is Astrid, Sveinn is Svein); the Old Norse form is printed on every card. Real people: royal fathers' names with a recorded genitive (Eiríkr, Haraldr, Sveinn, Hákon, Bjǫrn) are left out of the patronymics, because a name such as Harald Eiriksson is too likely to be a king. Every full name was then looked up as an English Wikipedia page title in three spellings (as printed, in Old Norse and in modern Icelandic), on 2026-10-01; 16 names that are the title of a person's article were removed and replaced by the next father in turn: Astrid Bjarnadottir, Einar Helgason, Eyvind Finnsson, Gudmund Bragason, Gudmund Helgason, Gudrun Bjarnadottir, Gudrun Helgadottir, Halldor Helgason, Helga Helgadottir, Odd Snorrason, Sigurd Bjarnason, Sigurd Helgason, Snorri Helgason, Thora Finnsdottir, Thora Helgadottir, Thorstein Bjarnason. Icelanders still bear names of this shape, so a name here can match a living person by chance. No nickname of a real person (the Red, Forkbeard, Bloodaxe) is used, and no name is shared with the medieval name page. A names site whose licence forbids commercial use was read for nothing. Licence: The list is our own compilation. The glosses follow English Wiktionary and English Wikipedia, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); each item links its entry in x.src.