Klaudyna
A Latin name meaning "lame", the feminine counterpart to Klaudia. Only about 1,600 Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Klaudyna Pronunciation
Klaudyna is pronounced klah-oo-DIH-nah (/klauˈdɨna/).
What Klaudyna means
Where Klaudyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Klaudyna comes from Latin. It is a feminine form of the Roman name Claudius, which grew from the adjective claudus. The short meaning handed down in Polish dictionaries is kulawa or chroma, that is, lame.
The Claudii were one of Rome's old patrician clans, and they wore that blunt word as a family name without flinching. Over centuries the literal sense faded, and the Roman pedigree stayed behind it. Polish took the name in as Klaudyna, a near sister to Klaudia and a counterpart to the masculine Klaudiusz.
One famous bearer, Klaudyna Potocka, nursed wounded insurgents during the November Uprising of 1830 and was later called the guardian angel of Polish emigrants. Open a class register in a Polish school today and you might find a single Klaudyna among the Klaudias, set apart by two extra letters. The limp is forgotten. What survives is the Latin root claudus and its old meaning, lame.
When Klaudyna celebrates name day
Klaudyna appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 February.
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 Klaudyna
1 in 13729 women in Poland is named Klaudyna. 1,642 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #764 among female names.
Klaudyna's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1269 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #764 name among living women, even as it slips to #1269 among newborns.
Where Klaudyna is most popular
Klaudyna is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+852%
Klaudyna as a middle name
Klaudyna is a first name for 1,642 women in Poland and a middle name for another 496, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 313th, between Gabryela (497) and Christine (492).
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#311 Larysa499
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#312 Gabryela497
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#313 Klaudyna496
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#314 Christine492
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#315 Mercedes491