Entry № 185 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Aebbe Aebbe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EB-uh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Anglo-Saxon abbess of Coldingham"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "anglo-saxon abbess of coldingham".

Aebbe is from the Old English ebbe (low tide). Saint Aebbe of Coldingham (d. 683) was the Northumbrian princess, sister of Saints Oswald and Oswiu, kings of Northumbria — abbess of the great double monastery at Coldingham on the Berwickshire coast.

The headland she ruled is now called St Abbs Head.

Low tide. Anglo-Saxon abbess; St Abbs Head is named for her.

The name in its native script.

Aebbe
Transliteration
Aebbe
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛb.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aebbe stands.

Aebbe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aebbes before her.

Real people
Saint Aebbe of Coldingham
Northumbrian abbess.
d. 683
In fiction
Aebbe
St Abbs Head namesake.

Names connected to Aebbe.

The number behind Aebbe.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aebbe reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.