Entry № 1351 · Old Germanic origin

Berengaria Berengaria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ beh-ren-GAH-ree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Bear-spear (Richard the Lionheart's wife)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "bear-spear (richard the lionheart's wife)".

Berengaria of Navarre (c. 1165-1230) was the wife of King Richard the Lionheart of England — married him on Cyprus during the Third Crusade.

Distinct from Berenguela of Castile.

Bear-spear (Richard the Lionheart's wife) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Berengaria
Transliteration
Berengaria
Pronunciation
/ ˌbɛr.ənˈɡɑː.ri.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Berengaria stands.

Berengaria 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.

Berengarias before her.

Real people
Berengaria of Navarre
Richard Lionheart's wife.
c. 1165 – 1230
In fiction
Berengaria
Featured in Scott's The Talisman.
1825

Names connected to Berengaria.

The number behind Berengaria.

8

The Visionary

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