Ludgarda
Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it in years: most Poles will never meet a Ludgarda. The name is Germanic, built from roots that read as "guardian of the people".
Ludgarda Pronunciation
Ludgarda is pronounced lood-GAHR-dah (/ludˈgarda/).
What Ludgarda means
Where Ludgarda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ludgarda comes from Germanic roots, joining liut, meaning people, with gard, a word for protection or an enclosure that shields what is inside. Together they give the sense recorded for the name: guardian of the people. The first element shows up in other old names, including Ludwik, where liut again names the crowd a ruler stands before.
The name attaches to a real woman. Lutgarda of Aywières, a Cistercian mystic of the thirteenth century in what is now Belgium, carried the variant form and left a documented life. Her feast falls on 16 June. That date fixes an imieniny for anyone christened Lutgarda or Ludgarda.
In Poland the name is rare. A teacher reading a class register might pause once before saying it. The spelling shifts between Ludgarda and Lutgarda, the d and t trading places, while the meaning holds steady: obrończyni ludu, guardian of the people.
When Ludgarda celebrates name day
Ludgarda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 June.
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 Ludgarda
1 in 146389 women in Poland is named Ludgarda. 154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2608 among female names.
Ludgarda as a middle name
Ludgarda is a first name for 154 women in Poland and a middle name for another 61, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 871st, between Ivy (61) and Sofía (61).
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