Save Gender Feminine Usage Welsh Pronounced Pron. [ˈbiˑ.ðɪg] [key·simplify] Meaning & History Derived from Welsh budd "profit, advantage". It is a cognate of Boudicca, the name of a 1st-century queen of the Iceni (a Celtic people) who is known as Buddug in Welsh, and is sometimes considered a Welsh equivalent of Victoria.