Kasylda
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been named Kasylda since 2000. A Latin name of uncertain meaning, tied to bark and wild cinnamon.
Kasylda Pronunciation
Kasylda is pronounced kah-SIHL-dah (/kaˈsɨlda/).
What Kasylda means
Where Kasylda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kasylda comes from Latin, the Polish form of Casilda. Its short meaning is recorded as "poem," though that reading stays uncertain. Some scholars tie the sound to the Arabic qaṣīda, a formal ode, which keeps the poem sense in play without proving it.
The name has a patron. Saint Casilda of Toledo, remembered from about 950 to 1050, was a Muslim princess who carried food to Christian prisoners. Poland fixed her feast on 9 April, and that is the date Kasyldas mark their imieniny. A girl with this name usually meets it first on a class register, then on the church calendar.
There is a second thread in the meaning. In Polish tradition the name has been linked to kora and dziki cynamon, bark and wild cinnamon, the cassia of old apothecaries. That association arrived later than the Latin root. It gives Kasylda a scent as well as a sound.
The name stays rare. No standard diminutive attaches to it. What a bearer keeps is the full form, Kasylda, and a feast on 9 April.
When Kasylda celebrates name day
Kasylda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 April.
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 Kasylda
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Kasylda. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14240 among female names.
Kasylda as a middle name
Kasylda is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 43/57 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1835th, between Janice (16) and Katerine (16).
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#1833 Ivanka16
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#1834 Janice16
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#1835 Kasylda16
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#1836 Katerine16
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#1837 Kaye16