Uhtred

Uhtred is a boy's baby name of Old English origin, from the Old English Uhtræd, composed of uht (pre-dawn, twilight) and ræd (counsel, advice), meaning 'counsel before dawn' or 'wise at the dawn hour' — a name of the twilight wisdom that comes just before the world wakes.

With over 110 recorded births, Uhtred gained significant contemporary visibility through Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom novel series (and subsequent BBC television adaptation), in which Uhtred of Bebbanburg is the main character — a Saxon-raised-Viking warrior caught between two cultures in 9th-century England. The name has genuine historical roots in Anglo-Saxon England, where Uhtred the Bold was an important Northumbrian earl around 1000 AD.