Entry № 1318 · Old Germanic origin

Begga Begga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-gah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Carolingian foremother"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "carolingian foremother".

Begga is from the Old Germanic baga (strife). Saint Begga (c. 615-693) was the Frankish noblewoman, daughter of Pepin of Landen and Itta, sister of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. Her son was Pepin of Herstal, founder of the Carolingian dynasty — making her the great-great-grandmother of Charlemagne. Founded the monastery of Andenne.

Featured in Carolingian chronicles.

Carolingian foremother. Charlemagne's great-great-grandmother.

The name in its native script.

Begga
Transliteration
Begga
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛɡ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Begga stands.

Begga 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.

Beggas before her.

Real people
Saint Begga
Carolingian foremother.
c. 615 – 693
In fiction
Begga
Charlemagne's great-great-grandmother.

Names connected to Begga.

The number behind Begga.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Begga reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.