Frida
Germanic through and through, from the element *friðu*: peace, the same root that sits inside Fryderyk. In Poland it stays rare, given to a handful of girls each year, so meeting one is something you'd remember.
Frida Pronunciation
Frida is pronounced FREE-dah (/ˈfrida/).
What Frida means
Where Frida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Frida grew from the Germanic word for peace, the element friðu that Norse and German speakers carried down the generations. The same root sits inside Fryderyk, where peace is joined to a word for rule. So the short meaning, peace, belongs to the origin itself and was not attached afterward.
The name settled early into Scandinavia and Germany. The painter born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo used the fuller German spelling at first, then trimmed it to Frida, keeping the tie to Frieden, the German for peace, close to the surface. Four plain letters were enough.
Read a Polish class register and Frida stands there on its own. A teacher going down the list finds no diminutive to soften it and no cross-gender twin. The name has no smaller shape to slip into.
Peace. That is what the letters have said since the first Germanic speakers used them, and in Polish the word is pokój.
How many people are named Frida
1 in 119914 women in Poland is named Frida. 188 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2308 among female names.
Frida's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #925 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Frida is most popular
Frida is most popular in Lesser Poland, 217% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+123%) and Silesian (+111%).
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Lesser Poland3 girls born+217%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+123%
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Silesian2 girls born+111%
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Masovian2 girls born+36%
Frida as a middle name
Frida is a first name for 188 women in Poland and a middle name for another 114, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 619th, between Stela (115) and Jola (114).
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#617 Silvia115
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#618 Stela115
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#619 Frida114
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#620 Jola114
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#621 Valeria114