Entry № 2713 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Eadflæd Eadflæd — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EAD-flayd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Wealth-beauty (Edward the Elder's daughter)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "wealth-beauty (edward the elder's daughter)".

Eadflæd (early 10th c.) was the daughter of King Edward the Elder of Wessex and granddaughter of Alfred the Great. She was sent as a young nun to Wilton Abbey to live the religious life.

Featured in Anglo-Saxon chronicles.

Wealth-beauty (Edward the Elder's daughter) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Eadflæd
Transliteration
Eadflæd
Pronunciation
/ ˈiːəd.fleɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eadflæd stands.

Eadflæd 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.

Eadflæds before her.

Real people
Eadflæd
Daughter of Edward the Elder.
early 10th c.
In fiction
Eadflæd
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Names connected to Eadflæd.

The number behind Eadflæd.

4

The Builder

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