Entry № 1353 · Spanish origin

Berenguela Berenguela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ beh-ren-GEH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Bear-spear (Castilian queen)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "bear-spear (castilian queen)".

Berenguela of Navarre (1165-1230) was the Queen of England as wife of Richard the Lionheart.

Bear-spear. The Castilian queen-mother of Saint Ferdinand.

The name in its native script.

Berenguela
Transliteration
Berenguela
Pronunciation
/ ˌbɛ.rənˈɡɛ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Berenguela stands.

Berenguela 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.

Berenguelas before her.

Real people
Queen Berenguela of Castile
Castilian queen, mother of Saint Ferdinand III.
1180 – 1246
In fiction
Berenguela
Common in medieval fiction.

Names connected to Berenguela.

The number behind Berenguela.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Berenguela reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.