Entry № 8418 · Old Germanic origin

Radegund Radegund — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-deh-gund /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Counsel-battle (Frankish queen-saint)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "counsel-battle (frankish queen-saint)".

Saint Radegund (518-587) was the Thuringian princess and Frankish queen who, after the brutal King Clotaire I had her brother killed, fled the court to found the monastery of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers — among the first major women's monasteries in the West.

Patron saint of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Counsel-battle (Frankish queen-saint) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Radegund
Transliteration
Radegund
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.də.ɡʌnd /
Root
Grammatical form

What Radegund is built from.

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

gund
Germanic
“battle”

Where Radegund stands.

Radegund 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.

Radegunds before her.

Real people
Saint Radegund
Frankish queen-saint.
518 – 587
In fiction
Radegund
Patron saint of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Names connected to Radegund.

The number behind Radegund.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Radegund reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.