Entry № 8189 · Old Germanic origin

Plectrude Plectrude — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PLEK-trood /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Frankish queen (Pippin's widow)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "frankish queen (pippin's widow)".

Plectrude is a name of Old Germanic origin, meaning frankish queen (pippin's widow).

Frankish queen (Pippin's widow) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Plectrude
Transliteration
Plectrude
Pronunciation
/ ˈplɛk.truːd /
Root
Grammatical form

What Plectrude is built from.

Plectrude is a compound name. Its parts are þrúðr — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

þrúðr
Germanic
“strength”

Where Plectrude stands.

Plectrude 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.

Plectrudes before her.

Real people
Plectrude
Frankish queen, wife of Pepin II.
c. 650 – c. 718
In fiction
Plectrude
Heroine of Amélie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres.
2002

Names connected to Plectrude.

The number behind Plectrude.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Plectrude reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.