Entry № 11457 · German origin

Walpurga Walpurga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A ruler and protector"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a ruler and protector".

Walpurga is a name of German origin, meaning a ruler and protector.

A ruler and protector — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Walpurga
Transliteration
Walpurga
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Walpurga stands.

Walpurga 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.

Walpurgas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Walpurga.

The number behind Walpurga.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Walpurga reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.