Cuthbert

Name of early English saints, from Old English Cūþbeorht (“brightly known, famous”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌθ.bɜːɹt/

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Cuthbert

1. A male given name from Old English.
   • 1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:

     "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 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."

2. A surname.
3. A place name:
   1. A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Georgia, United States, named after John Alfred Cuthbert.
   2. An unincorporated community in Sanborn County, South Dakota, United States.
   3. A ghost town in Mitchell County, Texas, United States, originally named after Thomas Cuthbertson.

• Burchett

Cuthbert m

1. alternative form of Cuteberto