Walburga

Girls' name

Rule, authority, through Walpurga

Walburga has been given to 80 babies in the U.S. since 1893. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Walburga, 1925

1 in 467,000

Walburga over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Walburga: meaning, origin, and history

Rule, authority, through Walpurga

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Walburga means

Walburga belongs to the name family reached through Walburga → Walpurga. Its meaning is “rule, authority”.

Origin, language, and formation

Walburga is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Walpurga.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 80 girls were recorded with the name Walburga between 1893 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,410 in 1896.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Walburga?

Walburga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925: 1 in 467,000; 5 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 323,456 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Walburga sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Walburga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Walburgas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Walburga was born before 1913 — so the typical Walburga is around 112 today.

Median birth year: 1913; About 112 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 65.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Walburga rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (9)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,410; 1896

Walburga around the world

Where Walburga ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1942–1943
#1,195
in 1943
South Australia
1986–1986
#667
in 1986

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Walburga by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,410; 1896
Peak year: 1918; 9 that year
First recorded: 1893
Last recorded: 1925
All-time count: 80
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Walburga

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Waliyah Waleska Wallace Waldene Waldean Walkiria Walida Waldine Waltina Walsie Wallie Walesca Wallene Wallis Walaa Walterine Walisha Walela Walidah Walta Walkidia Walker Wally Walcie

Sibling names for Walburga

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda Verda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand

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