Every Viking needed a name worth shouting across a longhouse. Find yours with Asgard Alaska’s Viking Name Generator: a real Old Norse forename, a parent’s name or a byname in the true Viking style, and your name carved in the runes of the Viking Age.

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How the Viking Name Generator Builds Your Name

Every name is built the way a Norse family would have built it, from three parts. First comes a real Old Norse first name, picked from 145 men’s and 115 women’s names, each shown in its Old Norse spelling with what it means. Next comes a name from a parent: your father’s or mother’s name, turned into -son for a son or -dóttir for a daughter. Some names also get a byname, one of 24 nicknames real Vikings were known by, or a trait you type in yourself. For the story behind each part, read How Did Vikings Get Their Names?

What the Asferg Stone Says

Names like these were carved in stone. The Asferg runestone in the photo was raised in Denmark in the Viking Age and stands today in the National Museum of Denmark. Its runes say that Þorgeirr raised it in memory of his brother Múli, “a very good thegn,” a man in a lord’s service. Two Viking names, still readable a thousand years later.

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