Astrid is the modern Scandinavian form of Old Norse Ástríðr, which means ‘divinely beautiful’ or ‘beloved as a god’.
Astrid is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Astrid isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Astrid ranks 589. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Astrid. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Astrid.
Astrid is the modern Scandinavian form of Old Norse Ástríðr, which means ‘divinely beautiful’ or ‘beloved as a god’.
In the US,... Astrid is a rare name, that first appeared in the 1900s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Astrid is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Astrid and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Astrid, you can simply say:
Apple
Sun
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Astrid
Astrid
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
S
T
R
I
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
S
T
R
I
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Astrid sounds like this:
