Entry № 10530 · Old Germanic origin

Theodelinda Theodelinda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ THEY-oh-deh-LIN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"People's serpent (Lombard queen)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "people's serpent (lombard queen)".

570-628) was the Bavarian-born Queen of the Lombards who converted her people to Catholicism — corresponded with Pope Gregory the Great.

Her famous Iron Crown of Lombardy is preserved in Monza.

The Lombard queen who converted her people.

The name in its native script.

Theodelinda
Transliteration
Theodelinda
Pronunciation
/ ˌθeɪ.oʊ.dəˈlɪn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Theodelinda stands.

Theodelinda 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.

Theodelindas before her.

Real people
Queen Theodelinda
Lombard queen and Catholic convert.
c. 570 – 628
In fiction
Theodelinda
Common in medieval fiction.

Names connected to Theodelinda.

The number behind Theodelinda.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Theodelinda reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.