Saga
Saga is a girl name of Norse origin, meaning A story; goddess of wisdom.
What Saga means
A story; goddess of wisdom.
Saga is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Saga comes from
Old Norse names are usually compounds drawn from the natural world, from battle, or from the gods, carried across northern Europe by Scandinavian settlement.
Saga is recorded as Norse in origin. Browse other Norse names.
How popular is Saga?
Saga sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Saga
Saga spans Wisdom and Scandinavian, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Themes: Wisdom, Scandinavian
Names like Saga
These share Saga's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Sigrid — Beautiful victory.
- Astrid — Divinely beautiful.
- Freya — Noble lady; Norse goddess of love.
- Ingrid — Beautiful, beloved (of the god Ing).
- Bjorn — Bear.
- Odin — All-father; god of wisdom and war.
- Ralph — Wolf counsel; wise wolf.
- Sophia — Wisdom.
- Annika — Grace, favor.
- Maja — Splendid, great.
- Saanvi — Goddess Lakshmi; knowledge.
- Sofija — Wisdom.