Entry № 2214 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Cynethryth Cynethryth — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIN-eh-thrith /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Royal strength (Offa's queen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "royal strength (offa's queen)".

Queen Cynethryth (d. after 798) was the wife of King Offa of Mercia — the only Anglo-Saxon queen to issue coins in her own name, indicating extraordinary political power. She later became abbess of Cookham.

Featured prominently in Anglo-Saxon historical studies.

Royal strength (Offa's queen) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Cynethryth
Transliteration
Cynethryth
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪn.ə.θrɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cynethryth stands.

Cynethryth 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.

Cynethryths before her.

Real people
Queen Cynethryth
Wife of King Offa of Mercia.
d. after 798
In fiction
Cynethryth
Common in Anglo-Saxon historical fiction.

Names connected to Cynethryth.

The number behind Cynethryth.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cynethryth reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.