Baby name
REVIVING
🇸🇪 🇳🇴 Arvid
/AR · vid/
Meaning
“Eagle tree”
Old Norse name meaning eagle tree or eagle forest, from arn (eagle) and vidr (tree or forest); a Viking-age name that survived intact into modern Scandinavian use.
Nicknames
arre
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Genuinely old-Norse roots make it timeless in Scandinavia; neither trendy nor stale.
The cultural moment.
Steady in Sweden and Norway throughout the 20th century; modest revival in Sweden since 2010.