Walburga
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic name, from Old High German elements meaning 'rule' + 'help'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/valbʊʁɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Walburga is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanic name, from Old High German elements meaning 'rule' + 'help'
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Walburga is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Variante gráfica de Valburga.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Walburgab. 710GBWest Saxon saint
- Walburga of Egmontb. 1489Dutch countess (1489-1529)
- Anna Maria Mozartb. 1720ATnot in their usual namemother of Maria Anna ("Nannerl") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Maria Amalia of Saxonyb. 1724ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1724-1760)
- Pauline von Metternichb. 1836ATnot in their usual nameAustrian princess (1836-1921)
- Walburga, Lady Pagetb. 1839GBGerman diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria (1839-1929)
- Walburga Oesterreichb. 1900USAmerican housewife (1880–1961)
- Walburga Wegnerb. 1908DEGerman opera singer (1908–1993)
- Val Winterb. 1943AUnot in their usual nameAustralian fencer
- Walburga Habsburg Douglasb. 1958DEAustrian Imperial and Royal and Swedish Politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Walburga mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic name, from Old High German elements meaning 'rule' + 'help' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Walburga?
- In the etymology graph, Walpurga, Vappu and Waldeburg are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Walburga?
- A machine transcription gives /valbʊʁɡa/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Walburga a male or female name?
- Walburga is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- In which country does Walburga have the most bearers?
- Walburga is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Walburga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.