Edwarda
Fewer than 2,000 Polish women carry it, and no newborn girls have taken it in years: a name most Poles have never met. It's the feminine form of Edward, from a Germanic root meaning "rich guardian".
Edwarda Pronunciation
Edwarda is pronounced ed-VAHR-dah (/ɛdˈvarda/).
What Edwarda means
Where Edwarda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Edwarda is a Germanic name, the feminine shape of Edward. Its roots reach back to the Old English Ēadweard, formed from ēad, meaning wealth or riches, and weard, a guardian or keeper. Together they give the sense of a rich guardian, someone set to watch over what is valuable.
The masculine Edward traveled far. It was carried by Anglo-Saxon kings, among them Edward the Confessor, whose name later crowned English monarchs for generations. Edwarda is the rarer feminine, and in everyday Polish it can shorten to Edek, the diminutive it shares with Edward.
On a class register or a form at the urząd, Edwarda stands out for its length and its old bones. The guardian in it is literal. It keeps watch over whatever a person is given to hold. In Polish that comes out as strażniczka dobrobytu, a guardian of prosperity.
When Edwarda celebrates name day
Edwarda appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 5 January.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Edwarda
1 in 11657 women in Poland is named Edwarda. 1,934 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #713 among female names.
Edwarda as a middle name
Edwarda is a first name for 1,934 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,514, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 221st, between Liwia (1,515) and Longina (1,492).
-
#219 Jessica1,516
-
#220 Liwia1,515
-
#221 Edwarda1,514
-
#222 Longina1,492
-
#223 Nicola1,401