Entry № 3258 · Old Germanic origin

Fastrada Fastrada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fahs-TRAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Strong counsel (Charlemagne's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "strong counsel (charlemagne's wife)".

765-794) was the fourth wife of Charlemagne — the East Frankish noblewoman who shaped court politics during the height of the Carolingian renaissance.

Buried in Mainz Cathedral.

Strong counsel. The fourth wife of Charlemagne.

The name in its native script.

Fastrada
Transliteration
Fastrada
Pronunciation
/ fɑːsˈtrɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

What Fastrada is built from.

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

radŭ
Slavic
“glad, joyful”

Where Fastrada stands.

Fastrada 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.

Fastradas before her.

Real people
Queen Fastrada
Fourth wife of Charlemagne.
c. 765 – 794
In fiction
Fastrada
Featured in Stephen Schwartz's Pippin.
1972 musical

Names connected to Fastrada.

The number behind Fastrada.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fastrada reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.