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Klaudia

Around 139,000 Polish women carry it, yet the name is fading fast: just 166 newborn girls got it last year. Its root is Latin, from a word meaning "lame".

Klaudia Pronunciation

Klaudia is pronounced klah-OOD-yah (/klaˈudja/).

Alive in 2025
138,973
Newborns 2025
166
National rank
#100
Next name day
20 March
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What Klaudia means

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

Klaudia comes from Latin, from the old Roman family name Claudius. The root is the adjective claudus, which meant lame or limping. So the plain sense of the name is "lame," in Polish kulawy. That is an odd thing to find under a name so many Polish women carry.

The Claudii were among the great families of the Republic. A limp in some early ancestor may have given the whole line its name. Over the centuries the limp fell out of memory and only the sound stayed.

Polish took Claudia and made Klaudia. The masculine form is Klaudiusz, and in a Cyrillic-facing spelling you meet the variant Klavdiia.

The meaning has not held anyone back. Few people who write Klaudia on a form at the urząd think of a limping Roman. The old sense of "lame" sits far behind the living name, kept only in the dictionary and the etymology, in the Latin claudus.

When Klaudia celebrates name day

Klaudia appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 20 March.

Next name day
20 March
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 191 days
Name days

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

Also celebrates

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 Klaudia

1 in 162 women in Poland is named Klaudia. 138,973 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #100 among female names.

People with the name Klaudia 2019 → 2025
138,973 +1,649 since 2019
2020 137,608 +284
2021 138,020 +412
2022 138,373 +353
2023 138,643 +270
2024 138,825 +182
2025 138,973 +148

Klaudia's popularity over time

166 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #203 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #100 name among living women, even as it slips to #203 among newborns.

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166 newborns with the name Klaudia in 2025
national rank #203 that year

Where Klaudia is most popular

Klaudia is most popular in Podlaskie, 98% above the national average (139 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+39%) and Subcarpathian (+22%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Silesian, 30% and 28% below average respectively.

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Klaudia as a middle name

Klaudia is a first name for 138,973 women in Poland and a middle name for another 34,636, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 62nd, between Ewelina (36,185) and Lidia (34,633).

As a first name
138,973
As a middle name
34,636
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking women

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