Edeltrauda
A Germanic name meaning "noble strength". Around 1,700 women in Poland carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so meeting one is a small surprise.
Edeltrauda Pronunciation
Edeltrauda is pronounced e-delt-rah-OO-dah (/ɛdɛltraˈuda/).
What Edeltrauda means
Where Edeltrauda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edeltrauda grew out of Germanic roots, from two building blocks that early speakers set side by side. The first, adal, meant noble; the second, thrud, meant strength. Read together, they give the meaning kept on this page: noble strength.
Names of this shape flourished in the German-speaking lands, where Edeltraud and Edeltraut passed from one generation to the next. Polish parish and civil records hold the closely related variant Edeltruda alongside Edeltrauda, both borne mostly by women. The spelling shifts a little at the border. The old sense holds firm underneath it.
Picture the name on a class register in a Silesian school, sitting among plainer entries, its Germanic frame plain to any teacher reading the column aloud. It looks heavy on the page and it was built to. Both halves point one way, toward the reading this site records for Edeltrauda and its variant Edeltruda: noble strength.
How many people are named Edeltrauda
1 in 13332 women in Poland is named Edeltrauda. 1,691 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #756 among female names.
Edeltrauda as a middle name
Edeltrauda is a first name for 1,691 women in Poland and a middle name for another 255, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 423rd, between Simona (256) and Karola (255).
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257Fernanda
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422
256Simona
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423255Edeltrauda
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424
255Karola
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255Martha