Entry № 1286 · Old Germanic origin

Bathild Bathild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-tild /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Bold battle (Frankish queen-saint)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "bold battle (frankish queen-saint)".

626-680) was the Anglo-Saxon slave who rose to become Queen of the Franks, married Clovis II, and ruled as regent for her son. Founded the abbey of Chelles. Canonized for her work freeing slaves.

Rare but iconic in early medieval scholarship.

Bold battle (Frankish queen-saint) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Bathild
Transliteration
Bathild
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.tɪld /
Root
Grammatical form

What Bathild is built from.

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

hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Bathild stands.

Bathild 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.

Bathilds before her.

Real people
Saint Bathild
Frankish queen-saint, freed slaves.
c. 626 – 680
In fiction
Bathild
Common in medieval fiction.

Names connected to Bathild.

The number behind Bathild.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bathild reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.