Given name & surname

Sverri

Sverri is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese.

Original Old NorseSverrir

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Sverri comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Faroese usage, Sverri developed from the Old Norse form SVERRIR.

Sverri’s family of names

In Faroese usage, Sverri shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form Sverre. In Faroese usage, Sverri developed from the Old Norse form SVERRIR.

Walk Sverri’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Sverri

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Similar names

If you love Sverri, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Norse

Sverker

“black” · “spear”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Svensen

“son of Sven”

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Old Norse

Svendsen

“son of Svend”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Einari

“one warrior”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Svarthöfði

“black” · “head”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Sveinur

Sveinur is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Iivari

“yew warrior”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Erki

Erki is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Estonian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Sverri’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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