Entry № 6962 · Irish origin

Modwenna Modwenna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mod-WEN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Irish-British saint of Burton"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "irish-british saint of burton".

Modwenna is from the Old Irish mo (my) and the Welsh gwen (white, fair, blessed). Saint Modwenna (d. c. 695) was the Irish-British abbess who founded numerous abbeys across Ireland and England — most famously Burton Abbey on the River Trent. Her cult was popular in medieval England.

Irish-British saint of Burton — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Modwenna
Transliteration
Modwenna
Pronunciation
/ mɒdˈwɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Modwenna stands.

Modwenna 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.

Modwennas before her.

Real people
Saint Modwenna
Irish-British abbess.
d. c. 695
In fiction
Modwenna
Subject of Geoffrey of Burton's Life.
12th c.

Names connected to Modwenna.

The number behind Modwenna.

8

The Visionary

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