Given name
Etheldreda
“noble”·“counsel, happiness”
Etheldreda is a feminine given name from Old English. It is used in English and Middle English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Etheldreda is built from elements meaning “noble” and “counsel, happiness”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old English.
The story
Etheldreda was in use during the 19th century.
Etheldreda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1916. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Etheldreda’s family of names
Etheldreda has a short form in Dreda. Etheldreda shares a linguistic root with Adeltraud. In Latin usage, Etheldreda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Audrey.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Etheldreda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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