Entry № 2213 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Cyneburh Cyneburh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIN-uh-burg /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Royal fortress (Anglo-Saxon abbess)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

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

Saint Cyneburh (d. c. 680) was the Anglo-Saxon abbess of Castor in Northamptonshire — daughter of King Penda of Mercia and sister of Saint Cuthberga. She married Alhfrith of Deira before becoming abbess.

Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Royal fortress. Anglo-Saxon abbess of Castor.

The name in its native script.

Cyneburh
Transliteration
Cyneburh
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪn.ə.bɜːrɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cyneburh stands.

Cyneburh 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.

Cyneburhs before her.

Real people
Saint Cyneburh
Anglo-Saxon abbess of Castor.
d. c. 680
In fiction
Cyneburh
Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
731

Names connected to Cyneburh.

The number behind Cyneburh.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cyneburh reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.