Entry № 2735 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Edburga Edburga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ED-burg-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Wealth-fortress (Anglo-Saxon queen-saint)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "wealth-fortress (anglo-saxon queen-saint)".

Saint Edburga of Minster (d. 751) was the Anglo-Saxon abbess, daughter of King Centwine of Wessex — succeeded Saint Mildred at Minster-in-Thanet.

Wealth-fortress (Anglo-Saxon queen-saint) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Edburga
Transliteration
Edburga
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛd.bɜːr.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Edburga stands.

Edburga 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.

Edburgas before her.

Real people
Saint Edburga of Minster
Anglo-Saxon abbess-scholar.
d. 751
In fiction
Edburga
Correspondent of Saint Boniface.

Names connected to Edburga.

The number behind Edburga.

4

The Builder

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