Entry № 3004 · German origin

Engelberta Engelberta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"Bright as an angel"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "bright as an angel".

Engelberta is a name of German origin, meaning bright as an angel.

Bright as an angel — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Engelberta
Transliteration
Engelberta
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Engelberta is built from.

Engelberta is a compound name. Its parts are berht — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

berht
Germanic
“bright, famous”

Where Engelberta stands.

Engelberta 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.

Engelbertas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Engelberta.

The number behind Engelberta.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Engelberta reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.