Given name
Herdis
“a battlemaiden”
Herdis is used as a given name. One Scandinavian interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scandinavian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Herdis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1946
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1946. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Herdis’s family of names
Herdis has a related form in Herdiss. Herdis has a related form in Herdisse. Herdis has a related form in Herdys.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Herdis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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