Entry № 2718 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Eanflaed Eanflaed — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-an-flayd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Northumbrian queen-abbess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "northumbrian queen-abbess".

Eanflaed (Eanflæd, 626-after 685) was the Anglo-Saxon Princess of Northumbria — daughter of King Edwin, the first Northumbrian to be baptized.

Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Anglo-Saxon queen-abbess. The first Northumbrian baptized.

The name in its native script.

Eanflaed
Transliteration
Eanflaed
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.ən.fleɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eanflaed stands.

Eanflaed 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.

Eanflaeds before her.

Real people
Queen Eanflaed
Anglo-Saxon queen and abbess.
626 – after 685
In fiction
Eanflaed
Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
731

Names connected to Eanflaed.

The number behind Eanflaed.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eanflaed reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.