Entry № 6856 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Mildgyth Mildgyth — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MILD-yith /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Mild-war (Mildred's sister)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "mild-war (mildred's sister)".

Saint Mildgyth (d. c. 676) was the Anglo-Saxon abbess, sister of Saints Mildred and Mildburh — youngest of the three holy sisters, daughters of the Kentish princess Eormenburg.

Featured in the Mildrith Legend.

Mild-war (Mildred's sister) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Mildgyth
Transliteration
Mildgyth
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɪld.jɪθ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mildgyth stands.

Mildgyth 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.

Mildgyths before her.

Real people
Saint Mildgyth
Anglo-Saxon abbess.
d. c. 676
In fiction
Mildgyth
Featured in the Mildrith Legend.

Names connected to Mildgyth.

The number behind Mildgyth.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mildgyth reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.