Rodika
Just 54 women in Poland carry it, and the birth records show no newborn Rodika in over twenty years. The root is the Romanian rod, "fruit", a Slavic name pointing to fertility.
Rodika Pronunciation
Rodika is pronounced ro-DEE-kah (/rɔˈdika/).
What Rodika means
Where Rodika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rodika grows from a Slavic root about yield and bearing, the same stem that gives Romanian its word "rod", meaning fruit. Philologists trace that Romanian "rod" back to Slavic "rodъ", so the borrowing runs full circle. Polish took the name with the plain sense kept: owoc, and with it płodność, fertility. The meaning stays close to the surface.
That "rod" runs through common Polish words, "rodzić" for to give birth, "rodzina" for family, "naród" for a people. Rodika stands among them as the one word that names the fruit itself. In Romania and Moldova the form Rodica is well used, read there as "little fruit". The name points at harvest before it points at anything else.
On a Polish class register the name looks foreign beside Zofia and Lena. The origin is not far off. The root means fruit.
How many people are named Rodika
1 in 417478 women in Poland is named Rodika. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5101 among female names.