Cutha
Cutha is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name commencing with cuth (famous).
Variants:
Cudd [John Kemble 1839 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 1: 148].
Cudda [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 8].
Cuddi [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 20].
Cuda [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 24].
Cuþa [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 18].
Cuða [Franz Stark 1868 Die Kosenamen der Germanen, page 15].
Cūda [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 673].
Cutha [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page xix].
Cudd(a [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 103].
Cút(h)a [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 1: 106].
Cud(d)a [Mats Redin 1919 Studies on uncompounded personal names in Old English, page 62].
Cūða [Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges 1988 A Dictionary of Surnames, page 153].
Stem:
cuth = famous [Elizabeth Withycombe 1945 The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 1st edition, page 34].
Suffix:
— a = termination of pet names, such as Cutha for Cuthwine or Cuthwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].
Explanation:
“Cutha might be a shortened form of Cuthwine, Cuthwulf, or any name beginning with Cuth-” [Charles Plummer 1899 Two of the Saxon chronicles parallel, 2nd edition, 2: 5].
Identifications:
“in the pedigree of the royal family of Wessex, a brother of King Ceawlin is called Cuthwulf in ASChr ABC a. 571, but Cutha in ASChr E of the same year; again, a son of Ceawlin is called Cuthwine in ASChr ABCEF a. 577, but Cutha in ASChr ABC a. 685; while, again, a grandson of Ceawlin and father of Ceolweald is called Cuthwulf Sw. p. 179 1. 5, but Cutha in ASChr ABCD a. 855” [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page xix].
Usage:
“Her Ceaulin and Cuþa. gefuhton wiþ Æþelbryht. and hine in Cent gefliemdon” [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 18, annal (A) 568]: “Here Ceawlin and Cutha, Ceawlin’s brother, fought against Æthelbert and drove him into Kent” (Edward Gomme 1909 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 37, annal 568 [A]).
