Boy · Old English
Cuthbert
Say it: KUTH-bert
Meaning
From Old English cuth 'known, famous' and beorht 'bright'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Revived in Victorian England, especially in the north.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 151 babies given this name since 1912
- At its height in 1912, about 1 in 47,800 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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