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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.