Edeltruda
Only 41 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century: it's a name most Poles will never meet. Germanic at root, built from words for "noble strength".
Edeltruda Pronunciation
Edeltruda is pronounced e-delt-ROO-dah (/ɛdɛltˈruda/).
What Edeltruda means
Where Edeltruda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edeltruda is built from two Germanic pieces. The first, edel, means noble. The second, trud, means strength. Put together they give the reading kept on Polish name lists: noble strength.
The name reached Poland with the Germanic naming stock that spread across Central Europe. It stayed rare. A teacher reading a class register would meet it once in years, and its variant edeltrauda even less. Both forms hold the same two roots, with only the middle vowel shifting.
The old Germanic trud, the strength half, sat inside many early female names. Edeltruda keeps it plainly, without ornament. To carry the name is to carry a compound that says what it means, noble and strong.
Short line, that. The meaning here is not a later gloss laid over the sound. It is the literal sum of the parts: edel plus trud, szlachetna siła.
When Edeltruda celebrates name day
Edeltruda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 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 Edeltruda
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Edeltruda. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6021 among female names.
Edeltruda as a middle name
Edeltruda is a first name for 41 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2959th, between Dzesika (7) and Eki̇n (7).
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#2957 Duru7
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#2958 Dzesika7
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#2959 Edeltruda7
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#2960 Eki̇n7
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#2961 Eleonore7