Entry № 1596 · Brythonic Celtic origin

Boudicca Boudicca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boo-DIK-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Brythonic Celtic
Meaning
"Iceni warrior-queen who burned Roman London"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Brythonic)

A name that means "iceni warrior-queen who burned roman london".

Boudicca (from the Proto-Celtic boudi, "victory") was the Iceni queen of eastern Britain who led the largest indigenous revolt against the Roman Empire (60-61 CE). After Roman officials flogged her and raped her daughters following her husband's death, she rallied a coalition of British tribes and sacked Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans) — burning all three to the ground and killing an estimated 70,000-80,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons. Her revolt was the closest the Britons ever came to expelling Rome.

Subject of Tacitus's Annals (14.29-39) and a famous bronze statue on Westminster Bridge in London.

Victory. Iceni warrior-queen who burned Roman London; closest the Britons ever came to expelling Rome.

The name in its native script.

Boudicca
Transliteration
Boudicca
Pronunciation
/ buːˈdɪk.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Boudicca stands.

Boudicca 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.

Boudiccas before her.

Real people
Boudicca
Iceni queen.
c. 30 – 61 CE
In fiction
Boudicca
Tacitus's Annals.

Names connected to Boudicca.

The number behind Boudicca.

4

The Builder

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