Entry № 2117 · Frankish origin

Clotilde Clotilde — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ klo-TEELD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Frankish
Meaning
"Famous battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Frankish)

A name that means "famous battle".

Clotilde comes from the Frankish hluti (loud, famous) and hild (battle) — meaning "famous in battle." Saint Clotilde (c. 474-545) was the Burgundian princess who converted her husband Clovis I, the first king of the Franks, to Christianity.

Clotilde is widely used in France and Italy.

Famous battle — a Frankish name.

The name in its native script.

Clotilde
Transliteration
Clotilde
Pronunciation
/ kloʊˈtiːld /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Clotilde stands.

Clotilde 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.

Clotildes before her.

Real people
Saint Clotilde
Queen of the Franks.
c. 474 – 545
In fiction
Clotilde
Common in French historical fiction.

Names connected to Clotilde.

The number behind Clotilde.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Clotilde reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.