Entry № 3520 · Old Germanic origin

Galswintha Galswintha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ gahl-SWIN-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Visigothic queen (Frankish murder victim)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "visigothic queen (frankish murder victim)".

Galswintha (c. 540-568) was the Visigothic princess (sister of Brunhilda) sent to marry Chilperic I of the Franks — murdered by her husband at the instigation of his mistress Fredegund, triggering the bloody Frankish civil war that consumed two generations.

Featured in Gregory of Tours's Histories.

Visigothic queen (Frankish murder victim) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Galswintha
Transliteration
Galswintha
Pronunciation
/ ɡælˈswɪn.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Galswintha stands.

Galswintha 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.

Galswinthas before her.

Real people
Galswintha
Visigothic-Frankish queen.
c. 540 – 568
In fiction
Galswintha
Featured in Gregory of Tours.

Names connected to Galswintha.

The number behind Galswintha.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Galswintha reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.