Entry № 2775 · Lithuanian origin

Eglė Eglė — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EG-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Lithuanian
Meaning
"Fir tree (Queen of Serpents)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Lithuanian)

A name that means "fir tree (queen of serpents)".

Eglė is the Lithuanian word for "fir tree." In the famous Lithuanian folk tale Eglė, Queen of Serpents, a young woman marries the serpent king and is transformed into a fir tree along with her children.

Eglė is widely used in Lithuania.

Fir tree. The Queen of Serpents.

The name in its native script.

Eglė
Transliteration
Eglė
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛɡ.lɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eglė stands.

Eglė 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.

Eglės before her.

Real people

In fiction
Eglė, Queen of Serpents
Heroine of Lithuanian folk tale.
Lithuanian folklore

Names connected to Eglė.

The number behind Eglė.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eglė reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.