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Guthlac
Say it: GOOTH-lahk
Meaning
From Old English gūth 'battle, war' and lāc 'play, sport' (also 'offering'), giving roughly 'battle-play'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- St Guthlac of Crowland, hermit
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
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