Guttorm as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Guttorm

What is the meaning of the name Guttorm ?

The baby name Guttorm is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced GUT-torm (approx. /ˈɡʊtɔrm/; Norwegian approx. [ˈɡʉtːɔrm]).

Guttorm is Norse, Norwegian in Origin.

Guttorm is the modern Norwegian form of Old Norse Guthormr (also recorded as Guðormr), built from guð “god” and ormr “serpent, dragon.” The sense is often interpreted as “God’s serpent” or, by extension, “one protected by the gods.” Close relatives include Danish Gudtorm and Guthorm, Icelandic Guttormur, and the medieval short form Gorm; archaic spellings such as Gothorm also occur in Latinized sources.

The name is well attested in Norse tradition: Guthormr appears in the Völsunga saga as the slayer of Sigurðr, and a child-king of Norway, Guttorm (1204), bore it during the civil-war era. It continued sporadically in medieval Norway and Denmark and saw modest revival during the 19th–20th‑century Nordic national romantic movement. Today Guttorm remains rare but recognizable in Norway, with Guthorm/Gudtorm as conservative or dialectal variants and Gorm functioning as a familiar short form.