Laufey as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Laufey

What is the meaning of the name Laufey ?

The baby name Laufey is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈlaʊfeɪ/ ("LOW-fay"); alternative /ˈloʊfeɪ/.

Laufey is Norse in Origin.

Laufey is an Old Norse feminine name built from lauf “leaf, foliage” and ey “island,” commonly interpreted as “leafy island” or, more loosely, “foliage.” In the Eddic myths, Laufey - also called by the byname Nál (“needle”) - is the mother of Loki; he is styled Laufeyjarson (“son of Laufey”), an unusual matronymic that underscores her status.

As a given name beyond myth, Laufey appears in medieval Icelandic records and survives mainly in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, where it experienced a modern revival in the 19th–20th centuries and remains in steady use. Pop culture sometimes treats Laufey as masculine, but the traditional Norse figure is female. Variants include the Old Norse epithet Nál; Icelandic patronymic/matronymic forms include Laufeysdóttir and Laufeysson. The spelling Laufey is standard; alternative spellings are uncommon, and cognates are rare outside the North.

⚙ Laufey is a rare name. There are only 26 recorded uses of it in our data, from 3 countries.