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Leokadia

A Slavic name read as "bright, white". Meeting one is uncommon: around 22,000 Polish women carry it, yet after long quiet years more girls are getting it again, with the 2020s pulling the numbers back up.

Leokadia Pronunciation

Leokadia is pronounced le-o-KAHD-yah (/lɛɔˈkadja/).

Related names
Lodzia Loda
Alive in 2025
22,267
Newborns 2025
40
National rank
#262
Next name day
9 December
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What Leokadia means

Where Leokadia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Leokadia grows from Slavic ground, and its short meaning reads as "bright, white." The sound is old and a little formal.

In Poland the name day falls on the ninth of December, shared with Saint Leocadia of Toledo, a martyr of the early fourth century. Daily use softens the formality. Friends reach for Lodzia, or shorter still, Loda. The actress known as Loda Niemirzanka carried that diminutive onto film posters in the 1930s.

There is a second reading attached to the name in Polish, "troszcząca się o lud," one who cares for the people. That sense came later, drawn toward the Slavic word lud, meaning the folk. It sits over the older "bright, white" like a gloss in a newer hand. A Leokadia today may sign forms at the urząd with her full name and answer to Loda everywhere else.

When Leokadia celebrates name day

Leokadia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 9 December.

Next name day
9 December
Wednesday in 2026
Next one in 45 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Leokadia

1 in 1012 women in Poland is named Leokadia. 22,267 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #262 among female names.

People with the name Leokadia 2019 → 2025
22,267 −8,546 since 2019
2020 30,019 −794
2021 28,190 −1,829
2022 26,337 −1,853
2023 24,757 −1,580
2024 23,536 −1,221
2025 22,267 −1,269

Leokadia's popularity over time

40 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #391 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2014. Still the #262 name among living women, even as it slips to #391 among newborns.

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40 newborns with the name Leokadia in 2025
national rank #391 that year

Where parents choose Leokadia

Leokadia is most popular in Pomeranian, 273% above the national average (30 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+84%) and Greater Poland (+45%). It is least common in Lublin and Lesser Poland, 64% and 52% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +273%
    1 in 4,911 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +84%
    1 in 9,944 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +45%
    1 in 12,661 babies
Chosen least
  • Lublin
    −64%
    1 in 51,338 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −52%
    1 in 37,819 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    −49%
    1 in 35,897 babies

Leokadia as a middle name

Leokadia is a first name for 22,267 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13,473, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 97th, between Klara (13,639) and Ilona (12,931).

As a first name
22,267
As a middle name
13,473
first name 62% middle name 38%
Middle-name ranking women

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