Entry № 3030 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Eormenburg Eormenburg — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AYR-men-burg /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Great-fortress (Kentish queen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "great-fortress (kentish queen)".

Eormenburg (7th c.) was the Kentish queen, mother of Saints Mildred, Mildburh, and Mildgyth — the three holy Mild- sisters who became Anglo-Saxon abbesses.

Featured in the Mildrith Legend.

Great-fortress. Mother of the three Mild- sister-saints.

The name in its native script.

Eormenburg
Transliteration
Eormenburg
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛər.mən.bɜːrɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

What Eormenburg is built from.

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

burg
Germanic
“fortress, stronghold”

Where Eormenburg stands.

Eormenburg 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.

Eormenburgs before her.

Real people
Eormenburg
Kentish queen.
7th c.
In fiction
Eormenburg
Featured in the Mildrith Legend.

Names connected to Eormenburg.

The number behind Eormenburg.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eormenburg reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.