Ethelreda (given name) explained
| Etheldreda |
| Gender: | female |
| Language: | English |
| Language origin: | Old English |
| Meaning: | noble strength |
| Related Names: | Audrey, Audra, Audie |
| See also: | Etheldred |
Ethelreda is an English feminine given name of Old English origin, Æðelþryð, signified ''noble, strength''.
Notable people named Ethelreda, Etheldreda or Etheldritha include:
- Æthelthryth (c. 636–679), also known as Ethelreda, Anglo-Saxon saint, East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely
- Ælfthryth of Crowland (died c. 835), also known as Etheldritha, Anglo-Saxon saint, daughter of King Offa of Mercia
- Ethelreda (daughter of Gospatric), 11th century daughter of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria, and wife of Duncan II of Scotland
- Ethelreda Ethel Baxter (1883–1963), Scottish cook and businesswoman
- Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960), British photographer
- Ethelreda Leopold (1914–1998), American film actress
- Ethelreda Malte (c. 1527/35–c. 1559), English courtier reputed to be an illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII
- Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu (born 1974), Ugandan professor, researcher, epidemiologist and psychiatrist
- Etheldreda Townshend (1708–1788), English society hostess
- Etheldreda, a character in the Demonbane visual novel, anime and manga series Demonbane, the spirit of the Pnakotic Manuscripts
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