Ryszarda
Close to 3,900 Polish women carry it, but newborns almost never get it now: the register has sat near zero for years. It's the feminine counterpart to Ryszard, a Germanic name meaning "brave ruler".
Ryszarda Pronunciation
Ryszarda is pronounced rih-SHAHR-dah (/rɨˈʂarda/).
What Ryszarda means
Where Ryszarda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ryszarda comes from Germanic roots, built from a word for a ruler and a word for something brave and hard. Together they give the meaning that trails the name still: brave ruler, or in Polish silny władca. The parts are old. They surface across the Germanic languages, and in English the same pairing produced Richard.
In Polish, Ryszarda is the feminine form standing next to Ryszard, its cross-gender twin. The ending shifts and the sense holds. A woman named Ryszarda answers to the same idea of command that sits in the masculine form, the ruler with courage down in the root.
The name is uncommon among girls today. When the imieniny comes around, a Ryszarda often shares the calendar with the far more common Ryszard, and the main date, 3 April, belongs to Saint Richard of Chichester. The meaning has not moved: silny władca, a brave ruler.
How many people are named Ryszarda
1 in 5728 women in Poland is named Ryszarda. 3,936 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #535 among female names.
Ryszarda's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ryszarda as a middle name
Ryszarda is a first name for 3,936 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3,030, a 57/43 split — almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 170th, between Sonia (3,110) and Zenona (3,020).
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168
3,124Marzanna
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169
3,110Sonia
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1703,030Ryszarda
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171
3,020Zenona
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172
2,993Jowita