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Astrid

Barely 340 women in Poland carry it, and it's climbing: more newborn girls got the name last year than in any year before. Germanic at root and Scandinavian in use, it means roughly divinely fair.

Astrid Pronunciation

Astrid is pronounced AHST-reet (/ˈastrit/).

Alive in 2025
342
Newborns 2025
16
National rank
#1621

What Astrid means

Where Astrid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Astrid grew from the Old Norse Ástríðr, built from two Germanic roots: áss, meaning god, and fríðr, meaning beautiful or fair. Put together, they give the sense the name still carries in Poland, divinely beautiful, piękna jak bóg. The first part points to the old Norse gods, the Æsir, so the beauty here was measured against something more than human.

The name traveled with Scandinavian royalty. Astrid of Sweden became queen of Belgium in the 1930s and was mourned across Europe after her death in a 1935 car accident. Swedish readers know another Astrid too: Lindgren, who wrote Pippi Longstocking. Both women kept the name in circulation far beyond the north.

In Poland, Astrid stays rare and clearly foreign. It has no Polish diminutives of its own, no softened form waiting on a class register. A teacher reading it off the urząd paperwork meets it whole, four letters that resist being shortened. What stays with the child is the plain meaning, beautiful as a god.

How many people are named Astrid

1 in 65918 women in Poland is named Astrid. 342 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1621 among female names.

People with the name Astrid 2019 → 2025
342 +112 since 2019
2020 238 +8
2021 250 +12
2022 266 +16
2023 300 +34
2024 316 +16
2025 342 +26

Astrid's popularity over time

16 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #568 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2013.

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16 newborns with the name Astrid in 2025
national rank #568 that year

Where Astrid is most popular

Astrid is most popular in Greater Poland, 105% above the national average (10 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+91%) and Lower Silesian (+40%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland, 27% and 22% below average respectively.

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Astrid as a middle name

Astrid is a first name for 342 women in Poland and a middle name for another 169, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 519th, between Bogda (171) and Selena (168).

As a first name
342
As a middle name
169
first name 67% middle name 33%
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