Entry № 3457 · Old English origin

Frideswide Frideswide — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FRID-eh-swide /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old English
Meaning
"Strong peace (Oxford patron saint)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Old English)

A name that means "strong peace (oxford patron saint)".

She is the patron saint of Oxford University.

Frideswide is rare but iconic in Oxford.

Strong peace. The patron saint of Oxford.

The name in its native script.

Frīðuswīþ
Transliteration
Frīðuswīþ
Pronunciation
/ ˈfrɪd.ə.swaɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Frideswide stands.

Frideswide 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.

Frideswides before her.

Real people
Saint Frideswide
Anglo-Saxon princess-saint of Oxford.
c. 650 – 735
In fiction
Frideswide
Common in Oxford-related fiction.

Names connected to Frideswide.

The number behind Frideswide.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Frideswide reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.