Entry № 1387 · Old Germanic origin

Bertrada Bertrada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ber-TRAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Charlemagne's mother"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "charlemagne's mother".

720-783) was the wife of Pepin the Short and mother of Charlemagne — one of the most influential women of the Carolingian dynasty.

Bright counsel. The mother of Charlemagne.

The name in its native script.

Bertrada
Transliteration
Bertrada
Pronunciation
/ bɜːrˈtrɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

What Bertrada is built from.

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

radŭ
Slavic
“glad, joyful”

Where Bertrada stands.

Bertrada 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.

Bertradas before her.

Real people
Bertrada of Laon
Mother of Charlemagne.
c. 720 – 783
In fiction
Bertrada
Common in Carolingian historical fiction.

Names connected to Bertrada.

The number behind Bertrada.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bertrada reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.