Rudolfina
Just seven Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. It's the feminine form of Rudolf, built from Old Germanic words for fame and wolf: a famous she-wolf.
Rudolfina Pronunciation
Rudolfina is pronounced roo-dol-FEE-nah (/rudɔlˈfina/).
What Rudolfina means
Where Rudolfina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rudolfina is the feminine form of Rudolf, a name built from Old Germanic parts. The elements are hrod, meaning "fame", and wulf, meaning "wolf". Joined as Hrodwulf, they give the short meaning carried into English as "famous wolf". The -ina ending turns the masculine Rudolf toward a woman.
In Polish the reading is "sławna wilczyca", a famous she-wolf. Rudolf stays the everyday variant, common on any class register. Rudolfina is rarer, and it keeps a Latinate polish where the shorter form has gone plain.
The wolf in the name was once praise. It marked a warrior his people admired. The root is a wolf. A girl called Rudolfina inherits that older reading. Sign it on a form at the urząd and the wolf is still there, under the fame.
When Rudolfina celebrates name day
Rudolfina appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 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 Rudolfina
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Rudolfina. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21372 among female names.
Rudolfina as a middle name
Rudolfina is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 37/63 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2204th, between Rosemaria (12) and Sidonia (12).
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#2202 Ritta12
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#2203 Rosemaria12
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#2204 Rudolfina12
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#2205 Sidonia12
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#2206 Sinéad12