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Atheldreda is a variant name. (Source: Charles, M 2006, The Big Book of Baby Names: Every Parent's Inspirational Guide to Naming Their New Child, Arcturus Publishing, London)
Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu is a Ugandan professor, researcher, epidemiologist and psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University in Uganda. Her research is particularly focused on supportive group psychotherapy as a first-line treatment for depression in people with HIV. She is one of only five recipients of the Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World in Biological Sciences, as well as listed at one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2020.
Audrey Etheldreda Townshend (born Audrey Etheldreda Harrison became Lady Lynn and later Etheldreda, Viscountess Townshend; 1708–1788) was an English society hostess. She went by her middle name, Etheldreda.
Etheldreda Laing (née Winkfield, 1872–1960) was a British photographer who is remembered for her early Autochrome photographs, which she began taking in 1908.
This is stunning. A very alluring name.
Sounds awfully pretentious and snobby.
This saint is my namesake. Has been in my family for many generations. Yes, I am from very distant English extraction. I only was given a portion of the name and yes I was teased in school :) I hated the name then but, I am extremely proud of it now. I would have to agree that the full "Etheldreda" is a mouthful but the shortened "Dreda", like I was given, I love. It was my grandmother's middle name, my mother was given Dreda as a middle name and I have a cousin that got the whole enchilada. But she spells it without the "D". Go figure.
Etheldreda would be an awesome name for a character, or even a middle name, I think it's stunning.
Just like Etheldred can be thought of as a combination of Ethel with Eldred (a boy's name/grandad name) or Mildred, Etheldreda can be a the result of blending Ethel with Eldreda, the female form of Eldred.
Also found in the form Etheldred, as if combining Ethel with Mildred or the male name Eldred. Yet Etheldred, without the 'a' after the second 'd', is female only, used in Anglo-Saxon times and again in the 19th century. Both Etheldred and Etheldreda are now out of fashion, but Audrey is the more popular form today.
Pronounced E-THEL-dreh-duh. I actually like it a lot, but it's probably too unusual for a child (which would result in teasing) and people would constantly mispronounce it as Ethel-dree-duh or Ethel-dred-uh.
Queen Etheldreda is a character in Angie Sage's very good novel Physik.
Pronounced a-THEHL-dreh-duh.
Saint Etheldreda was a famous Anglo-Saxon saint.

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