Liberata
Straight from Latin, from *liberare*, to set free: Liberata means a woman who has been freed. Just six Polish women carry it now, so most people here will never meet one.
Liberata Pronunciation
Liberata is pronounced lee-be-RAH-tah (/libɛˈrata/).
What Liberata means
Where Liberata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liberata comes straight from Latin. It is the feminine past participle of the verb liberare, to set free, so the name means a woman who has been freed. The Polish gloss is wyzwolona. The word carried no metaphor at first. Someone released from bondage, from a vow, from prison, could be called liberata in plain Latin.
The name found its saints. Liberata of Pavia is remembered on 11 January. A second, stranger Liberata, the bearded virgin martyr, was invoked by people who wanted release from trouble, and her feast fell on 20 July. In Spain the same name settled as Librada.
On a Polish class register the name looks unusual, and a teacher reading it aloud meets four clean syllables. Li-be-ra-ta. The meaning sits right on the surface: wyzwolona, freed.
When Liberata celebrates name day
Liberata appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 January.
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 Liberata
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Liberata. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #23306 among female names.
Liberata as a middle name
Liberata is a first name for 6 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3323rd, between Lexi (6) and Lilianne (6).
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#3321 Lesia6
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#3322 Lexi6
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#3323 Liberata6
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#3324 Lilianne6
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#3325 Lilioza6