Entry № 2714 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Eadgyth Eadgyth — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AYD-yith /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Wealth-war (the Anglo-Saxon Edith)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "wealth-war (the anglo-saxon edith)".

Her bones were rediscovered in Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008.

Wealth-war (the Anglo-Saxon Edith) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Eadgyth
Transliteration
Eadgyth
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪd.jɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eadgyth stands.

Eadgyth 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.

Eadgyths before her.

Real people
Eadgyth
Anglo-Saxon Empress of the Romans.
910 – 946
In fiction
Eadgyth
Common in Anglo-Saxon historical fiction.

Names connected to Eadgyth.

The number behind Eadgyth.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eadgyth reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.