Meanings
- A male given name from Old English.
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"What's the first name?" […] "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."
1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162 - A surname.
- A place name:
- A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Georgia, United States, named after John Alfred Cuthbert.
- A ghost town in Mitchell County, Texas, United States, originally named after Thomas Cuthbertson.
Origin
- Old EnglishCūþbeorht“brightly known, famous”
- EnglishCuthbert
Name of early English saints, from Old English Cūþbeorht (“brightly known, famous”).
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Chinese Mandarin 卡思伯特
- 卡思伯特 (Kǎsībótè)male given name
Esperanto Kutberto
- Kutbertomale given name
French Cuthbert
- Cuthbertmale given name
Italian Cutberto
- Cutbertomale given name
Latin Cuthbertus
- Cuthbertusmale given name
Portuguese Cuteberto, Cutberto
- Cutebertomale given name
- Cutbertomale given name
- Cuthbertmale given name
Russian Кутберт
- Кутберт (Kutbert)male given name
Scottish Gaelic Cuithbeart
- Cuithbeartmale given name
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Cite this entry
Cuthbert. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cuthbert
“Cuthbert.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cuthbert. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cuthbert,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cuthbert.
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