Given name
Snorri
“attack, onslaught”
Snorri is a masculine given name. It is used in Faroese and Old Norse.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Snorri possibly goes back to a word meaning “attack, onslaught.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Snorri’s family of names
In Old Norse usage, Snorri has a later derivative in SNORRE.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Snorri
- Snorri SturlusonIcelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
- Snorri GuðjónssonIcelandic handball playerborn 1981
- Snorri ThorfinnssonIcelandic explorer1004–1090
- Snorri Hjartarsonpoet1906–1986
- Snorri EinarssonNorwegian-Icelandic cross-country skierborn 1986
- Snorri GoðiIcelandic chieftain963–1031
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