Entry № 11451 · German origin

Waldburga Waldburga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A ruling fortress"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a ruling fortress".

Waldburga is a name of German origin, meaning a ruling fortress.

A ruling fortress — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Waldburga
Transliteration
Waldburga
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Waldburga is built from.

Waldburga 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 Waldburga stands.

Waldburga 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.

Waldburgas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Waldburga.

The number behind Waldburga.

8

The Visionary

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