Given name · also French
Childebert
“battle, fight”·“bright, shining”
Childebert is a masculine given name from French, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Childebert is built from elements meaning “battle, fight” and “bright, shining”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Childebert comes from French, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From French Childebert, from Medieval Latin Childebertus, from Proto-Germanic *Hildiberhtaz, built from Proto-Germanic *hildiz (“battle, fight”) + *berhtaz (“bright, shining”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Childebert’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Childebert
- Childebert IFrankish King497–558
- Childebert IIIKing of the Franks678–711
- Childebert IIKing of Austrasia570–596
- Childebert the AdoptedFrankish king650–662
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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