Alodia
Just 67 women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it in over twenty years: most Poles will never meet an Alodia. It comes from a Germanic root meaning "all riches" or a whole inheritance.
Alodia Pronunciation
Alodia is pronounced ah-LOD-yah (/aˈlɔdja/).
What Alodia means
Where Alodia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alodia comes from Germanic roots, from the word for allodial land, property held whole and free of any lord. The two parts mean "all" and "wealth", so the name reads as all riches, whole patrimony. It named an inheritance before it named a person.
The name traveled south. In ninth-century Spain, Alodia was a Christian girl of Huesca who died with her sister Nunilo around the year 851. The Catholic calendar keeps their feast on 22 October. That is how a Germanic word for property became a Spanish saint's name.
A patrimony is what one generation leaves the next, and the meaning stayed close to that. On a school register in Poland, Alodia sits rare among the Zuzannas and Majas. The name has no diminutive and no variant of its own, so the full form does all the work. The Polish gloss keeps the same idea: dziedzictwo, pełne posiadanie.
When Alodia celebrates name day
Alodia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Alodia
1 in 336475 women in Poland is named Alodia. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4420 among female names.
Alodia as a middle name
Alodia is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 63/37 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1101st, between Alexa (39) and Aoife (39).
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#1099 Adelaida39
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#1100 Alexa39
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#1101 Alodia39
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#1102 Aoife39
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#1103 Cassandra39