Kunegunda
From Germanic kuni and gunda, "clan war": a woman who fights for her family. Fewer than a thousand Polish women carry it today and none are being born with it, though its short form Kinga stayed far more familiar.
Kunegunda Pronunciation
Kunegunda is pronounced koo-ne-GOON-dah (/kunɛˈgunda/).
What Kunegunda means
Where Kunegunda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kunegunda comes from the old Germanic pairing of kuni, meaning clan or family, and gunda, meaning battle. Put together, the name reads as "family war," or, softened into meaning, one who fights for her own kin. The Polish sense caught this well: walcząca za swój ród. This is not a martial boast so much as loyalty given a hard edge.
The name found its most famous bearer in Kinga, the Polish saint born in 1224. Kinga is the diminutive form, and today it stands on its own far more often than the fuller Kunegunda. She became patroness of salt miners, tied by legend to the mine at Wieliczka. Pope John Paul II canonized her in 1999.
Kunegunda now sounds old. It reads like a name from a parish register kept in careful ink, one you might meet on a name-day card marked for July 24, or again for March 3. Kinga, meanwhile, stayed young and common. Two names, one root: clan and battle, bound together, and the daughter who carries them home.
When Kunegunda celebrates name day
Kunegunda appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Kunegunda
1 in 27901 women in Poland is named Kunegunda. 808 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1049 among female names.
Kunegunda as a middle name
Kunegunda is a first name for 808 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,117, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 243rd, between Anetta (1,119) and Nadzieja (1,098).
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#241 Marcjanna1,126
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#242 Anetta1,119
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#243 Kunegunda1,117
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#244 Nadzieja1,098
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#245 Lila1,087