Hrafn

Hrafn
A Common Raven.
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Old Norse
Origin
Language(s)	Old Norse
Meaning	"raven"
Other names
Cognate(s)	*Hræfn, Raven

Hrafn is both a masculine byname, and personal name in Old Norse. The name translates into English as "raven". The Old English form of the name is *Hræfn.^[1] The name is paralleled by the English masculine given name Raven, which is derived from the vocabulary word "raven".^[2]

People with the name

Hrafn Haengsson, (fl. 10th century), Icelandic jurist and goði
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, (born 1948), Icelandic moviemaker

References

^ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, p. 2594, ISBN 0-203-99355-1
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 226, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1