Gender: Feminine
Origin: Old Norse/Icelandic
Meaning: “foam fleck; comber.”
(DREUF-n)-the O is akin to the eu in Fleur.

An Old Norse name that is currently very popular in Iceland. This is another name that appears in Norse Mythology as the name of one of the nine mermaid daughters of Rán and Aegir.

In Iceland, the name is more common as a middle name than as a first name, it is currently borne by 89 women as a first name and as a middle name, it is borne by 467 women (July 2007).