Ragna

Ragna is a female given name . It comes from Norwegian and is short for Ragnhild or Reinhild . The name consists of two stems, whereby "Ragine" can be translated in German with "Rat" and "Hilta" with "Kampf" or "Fighter".

Ragna can be translated as “queen” or “the empires”.

Name bearers

• Ragna Árnadóttir (* 1966), Icelandic politician
• Ragna Enking (1898–1975), German archaeologist
• Ragna Ingólfsdóttir (* 1983), Icelandic badminton player
• Ragna Biskopstø Patawary (* 1980), Faroese soccer player
• Ragna Pitoll (* 1965), German actress
• Ragna Schirmer (* 1972), German pianist
• Ragna Sperschneider (1928–2003), German goldsmith and enamel artist

Web links

• Ragna on nordicnames.de (engl.)

See also

• Ragnar , male first name

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Comparative grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German, p. 164, Franz Bopp, Verlag Dümmler, University of Gent 1835.