Edeltraud
Fewer than 140 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them women, and no child has received it since at least 2000. A Germanic name meaning "noble strength".
Edeltraud Pronunciation
Edeltraud is pronounced e-delt-RAH-oot (/ɛdɛltˈraut/).
What Edeltraud means
Where Edeltraud comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edeltraud grew from old Germanic roots and settled into German. Its first part, adal, meant noble. Its second, drud, meant strength. Together they read as noble strength, which a Polish site renders as szlachetna siła.
That drud element was busy across German naming. It turns up in Gertrud and Waltraud, where it also pointed to strength. The adal half kept similar company, standing in Adelheid and Adela with the sense of noble. Edeltraud itself has no diminutive in this record, no short pet form. The meaning stays literal.
In Poland the name arrives as a visitor. Written on a form at the urząd, Edeltraud sits oddly among the Zofias and the Annas, three blunt syllables of German. The sense underneath reads plainly enough: noble strength, the adal and the drud still doing their old work.
How many people are named Edeltraud
1 in 164554 women in Poland is named Edeltraud. 139 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2784 among female names.
Edeltraud as a middle name
Edeltraud is a first name for 139 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1485th, between Ditta (23) and Ethel (23).
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#1483 Brigitta23
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#1484 Ditta23
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#1485 Edeltraud23
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#1486 Ethel23
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#1487 Gracia23