The Elder Futhark translator

See how your name might look in runes. Type it below.

We will not simply swap each modern letter for a similar sign. The Elder Futhark wrote the sounds of another language, so a name has to be heard first.

In some places the answer is obvious. In some there are two options — and you choose which one is closer. And for some modern sounds there is simply no rune of their own.

This is not a translation into an old language. It is your name, written as close to the Elder Futhark as its 24 signs allow.

Your name

Thinking about a tattoo?

Before you leave a sign on your skin, look not only at its sound but also at the old image and the modern associations.

What to know about a rune tattoo →

Want to build the name yourself, sign by sign?

Build it by hand → · All 24 runes →

And what do the runes in your name mean?

This is where the more interesting part begins. In an inscription, each rune carries a sound. But each one also has a name and an old image, preserved in the rune poems.

• Fehu — wealth.
• Raidho — the road.
• Isa — ice.
• Sowilo — the sun.

So once the name is assembled, you can open each sign on its own and see what story it carried long before your name.