Edmunda
The feminine of the Germanic Edmund, from roots meaning "rich protection". Only about 125 women in Poland carry it and no girls were given it last year, so most Poles will never meet one.
Edmunda Pronunciation
Edmunda is pronounced ed-MOON-dah (/ɛdˈmunda/).
What Edmunda means
Where Edmunda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edmunda comes from a Germanic root. Old English ēad meant wealth or riches, and mund meant protection. Put together they gave Edmund, the masculine form, and Edmunda is its feminine version. The short meaning reads as "rich protection," or in Polish opiekunka bogactwa, the guardian of wealth.
The wealth here is old wealth. In the early Germanic world ēad covered more than coins. It named inheritance, land, and standing, the things a family guarded. So the name ties protection to fortune. A person called Edmunda is placed on the guarding side of that pair.
Edmund crossed into England early and stuck. Edmunda followed as the feminine, rarer and more formal. In Poland it surfaces on official forms and in a class register, written in the careful hand of a clerk at the urząd. It is not a common choice. That rarity gives it weight.
Say it slowly. The name still means what it meant: rich protection, opiekunka bogactwa.
When Edmunda celebrates name day
Edmunda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 August.
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 Edmunda
1 in 180351 women in Poland is named Edmunda. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2992 among female names.
Edmunda as a middle name
Edmunda is a first name for 125 women in Poland and a middle name for another 137, a 48/52 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 555th, between Iris (138) and Jasmine (137).
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#553 Alojza138
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#554 Iris138
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#555 Edmunda137
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#556 Jasmine137
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#557 Amber136