Entry № 2208 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Cwenburh Cwenburh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KWEN-burg /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Queen-fortress (Anglo-Saxon abbess)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "queen-fortress (anglo-saxon abbess)".

Rare but iconic in Anglo-Saxon historical scholarship.

Queen-fortress. The Anglo-Saxon abbess.

The name in its native script.

Cwenburh
Transliteration
Cwenburh
Pronunciation
/ ˈkwɛn.bɜːrɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cwenburh stands.

Cwenburh 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.

Cwenburhs before her.

Real people
Cwenburh of Wimborne
Anglo-Saxon abbess.
8th c.
In fiction
Cwenburh
Common in Anglo-Saxon historical fiction.

Names connected to Cwenburh.

The number behind Cwenburh.

4

The Builder

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