Entry № 2202 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Cuthberga Cuthberga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KUTH-bur-gah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Saint of Wimborne (Anglo-Saxon abbess)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "saint of wimborne (anglo-saxon abbess)".

Saint Cuthberga (d. c. 725) was the Anglo-Saxon abbess and sister of King Ine of Wessex — founded the great double monastery at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.

Anglo-Saxon abbess. Founder of Wimborne Minster.

The name in its native script.

Cuthberga
Transliteration
Cuthberga
Pronunciation
/ ˈkʌθ.bɜːr.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cuthberga stands.

Cuthberga 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.

Cuthbergas before her.

Real people
Saint Cuthberga
Anglo-Saxon abbess of Wimborne.
d. c. 725
In fiction
Cuthberga
Common in Anglo-Saxon historical fiction.

Names connected to Cuthberga.

The number behind Cuthberga.

4

The Builder

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