Entry № 11450 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Walburga Walburga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAHL-burg-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"Strong-fortress (Walpurgis Night)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "strong-fortress (walpurgis night)".

Walburga is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning strong-fortress (walpurgis night).

Strong-fortress. Her feast day became Walpurgis Night.

The name in its native script.

Walburga
Transliteration
Walburga
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɑːl.bɜːr.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Walburga is built from.

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

wald
Germanic
“rule”
burg
Germanic
“fortress, stronghold”

Where Walburga stands.

Walburga 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.

Walburgas before her.

Real people
Saint Walburga
Anglo-Saxon missionary to Germany.
c. 710 – 779
In fiction
Walburga
Featured in Goethe's Faust.
1808

Names connected to Walburga.

The number behind Walburga.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Walburga reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.