Entry № 3799 · German origin

Griselda Griselda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A grey battle maiden"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a grey battle maiden".

Griselda is a name of German origin, meaning a grey battle maiden.

A grey battle maiden — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Griselda
Transliteration
Griselda
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Griselda stands.

Griselda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Griseldas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Griselda.

The number behind Griselda.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Griselda reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.