Entry № 3602 · German origin

Gerburga Gerburga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A protector with the spear"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a protector with the spear".

Gerburga is a name of German origin, meaning a protector with the spear.

A protector with the spear — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Gerburga
Transliteration
Gerburga
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gerburga is built from.

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

gair
Germanic
“spear”
burg
Germanic
“fortress, stronghold”

Where Gerburga stands.

Gerburga 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.

Gerburgas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gerburga.

The number behind Gerburga.

7

The Seeker

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