Entry № 1692 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Burginda Burginda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BUR-jin-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Anglo-Saxon nun-scribe"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "anglo-saxon nun-scribe".

Burginda is from the Old English burh (fortress) and a feminine suffix. Burginda (8th c.) was the Anglo-Saxon nun who inscribed her name in the Boulogne Gospel — one of the few named female scribes of the early Anglo-Saxon period. Her colophon survives.

Among the earliest named English female scribes.

Anglo-Saxon nun-scribe — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Burginda
Transliteration
Burginda
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɜːr.dʒɪn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Burginda stands.

Burginda 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.

Burgindas before her.

Real people
Burginda
Anglo-Saxon nun-scribe.
8th c.
In fiction
Burginda
Inscriber of the Boulogne Gospel.

Names connected to Burginda.

The number behind Burginda.

4

The Builder

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