Leopolda
Just 71 Polish women carry it, and most Poles have never met one. A Germanic name meaning "brave people", it stands as the feminine counterpart to Leopold.
Leopolda Pronunciation
Leopolda is pronounced le-o-POL-dah (/lɛɔˈpɔlda/).
What Leopolda means
Where Leopolda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leopolda grows from Germanic soil, standing beside Leopold as its feminine form. The name fastens together two old elements. One means people, the folk. The other means bold or brave. Read together, they give the sense of brave people.
The first syllable resembles the Latin leo, meaning lion, and over time that resemblance pulled the image of a lion toward the name. The lion came later. The older meaning kept the people at the front, an odważny lud in Polish.
Leopolda stays rare in Poland. On a school register it would likely be the only one, printed once above a column of Zuzannas and Antoninas. The masculine Leopold turns up more, carried by Habsburg archdukes and by old Kraków shop signs. The feminine form holds its own footing. To wear it is to answer to a word built from folk and courage, brave people fitted into a single given name.
When Leopolda celebrates name day
Leopolda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 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 Leopolda
1 in 317519 women in Poland is named Leopolda. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4275 among female names.
Leopolda as a middle name
Leopolda is a first name for 71 women in Poland and a middle name for another 81, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 733rd, between Ilza (81) and Ofelia (81).
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#731 Valerie82
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#732 Ilza81
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#733 Leopolda81
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#734 Ofelia81
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#735 Daisy80