Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Feminine Usage Icelandic, Faroese, Literature Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 2/17/2011 by vomiting Edited 6/3/2014 by Frollein Gladys Meaning & History Means "night" in Icelandic (a poetic word). Its use as a given name may have been influenced by the theological-philosophical poem 'Njóla' (1842) by Björn Gunnlaugsson.