Entry № 2095 · Latin origin

Claudia Severa Claudia Severa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLAW-dee-ah seh-VEH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Vindolanda birthday invitation"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "vindolanda birthday invitation".

Claudia Severa (c. 70-c. 130 CE) was the wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of a Roman fort near Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. Her birthday party invitation to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina ("darling soul"), written on a wooden tablet around 100 CE, is the earliest surviving handwritten document by a woman in Latin — possibly even her own handwriting at the end ("farewell, sister, my dearest soul").

Discovered at Vindolanda; now at the British Museum.

Vindolanda birthday invitation — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Claudia Severa
Transliteration
Claudia Severa
Pronunciation
/ ˈklɔː.di.ə səˈvɛr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Claudia Severa stands.

Claudia Severa 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.

Claudia Severas before her.

Real people
Claudia Severa
Vindolanda letter-writer.
c. 70 – c. 130
In fiction
Claudia Severa
Vindolanda tablets.
British Museum

Names connected to Claudia Severa.

The number behind Claudia Severa.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Claudia Severa reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.