Entry № 11522 · Anglo-Saxon origin

Wihtburga Wihtburga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WIT-burg-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Meaning
"White fortress (East Anglian princess-saint)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Anglo-Saxon)

A name that means "white fortress (east anglian princess-saint)".

Saint Wihtburga (d. c. 743) was the youngest sister of Saint Etheldreda of Ely — daughter of King Anna of East Anglia.

Translated to Ely Cathedral.

White fortress (East Anglian princess-saint) — a Anglo-Saxon name.

The name in its native script.

Wihtburga
Transliteration
Wihtburga
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɪt.bɜːr.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Wihtburga is built from.

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

burg
Germanic
“fortress, stronghold”

Where Wihtburga stands.

Wihtburga 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.

Wihtburgas before her.

Real people
Saint Wihtburga
East Anglian princess-saint.
d. c. 743
In fiction
Wihtburga
Sister of Saint Etheldreda.

Names connected to Wihtburga.

The number behind Wihtburga.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wihtburga reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.