Entry № 11518 · Old Germanic origin

Wiborada Wiborada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vee-boh-RAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Patron saint of librarians"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "patron saint of librarians".

Saint Wiborada (d. 926) was the Swiss anchoress of St. The library was saved. She is the patron saint of librarians.

Patron saint of librarians — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Wiborada
Transliteration
Wiborada
Pronunciation
/ ˌviː.boʊˈrɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

What Wiborada is built from.

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

radŭ
Slavic
“glad, joyful”

Where Wiborada stands.

Wiborada 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.

Wiboradas before her.

Real people
Saint Wiborada
Swiss anchoress, patron of librarians.
d. 926
In fiction
Wiborada
First woman officially canonized.
1047

Names connected to Wiborada.

The number behind Wiborada.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wiborada reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.