Entry № 4220 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Hereswith Hereswith — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-res-with /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Army-strength (Hilda's sister)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "army-strength (hilda's sister)".

Hereswith combines the Old English here (army) and swith (strong). Hereswith (c. 615-c. 690) was the Northumbrian princess and sister of Saint Hilda of Whitby — queen of the East Angles, later became a nun at Chelles in Gaul.

Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Army-strength. Hilda of Whitby's sister.

The name in its native script.

Hereswith
Transliteration
Hereswith
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛr.ɛs.wɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hereswith stands.

Hereswith 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.

Hereswiths before her.

Real people
Hereswith
Northumbrian princess and East Anglian queen.
c. 615 – c. 690
In fiction
Hereswith
Featured in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
731

Names connected to Hereswith.

The number behind Hereswith.

7

The Seeker

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