Klaudia
Around 139,000 Polish women carry it, yet the name is fading fast: just 166 newborn girls got it last year. Its root is Latin, from a word meaning "lame".
Klaudia Pronunciation
Klaudia is pronounced klah-OOD-yah (/klaˈudja/).
What Klaudia means
Where Klaudia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Klaudia comes from Latin, from the old Roman family name Claudius. The root is the adjective claudus, which meant lame or limping. So the plain sense of the name is "lame," in Polish kulawy. That is an odd thing to find under a name so many Polish women carry.
The Claudii were among the great families of the Republic. A limp in some early ancestor may have given the whole line its name. Over the centuries the limp fell out of memory and only the sound stayed.
Polish took Claudia and made Klaudia. The masculine form is Klaudiusz, and in a Cyrillic-facing spelling you meet the variant Klavdiia.
The meaning has not held anyone back. Few people who write Klaudia on a form at the urząd think of a limping Roman. The old sense of "lame" sits far behind the living name, kept only in the dictionary and the etymology, in the Latin claudus.
How many people are named Klaudia
1 in 162 women in Poland is named Klaudia. 138,973 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #100 among female names.
Klaudia's popularity over time
166 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #203 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #100 name among living women, even as it slips to #203 among newborns.
Where Klaudia is most popular
Klaudia is most popular in Podlaskie, 98% above the national average (139 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lublin (+39%) and Subcarpathian (+22%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Silesian, 30% and 28% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie139 girls born+98%
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Lublin152 girls born+39%
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Subcarpathian157 girls born+22%
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Warmian-Masurian93 girls born+21%
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Świętokrzyskie69 girls born+17%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian134 girls born+15%
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Lubusz59 girls born+11%
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Lesser Poland259 girls born+7%
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Łódź145 girls born+7%
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Pomeranian156 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian86 girls born−5%
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Opole43 girls born−13%
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Greater Poland198 girls born−14%
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Masovian323 girls born−15%
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Silesian175 girls born−28%
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Lower Silesian118 girls born−30%
Klaudia as a middle name
Klaudia is a first name for 138,973 women in Poland and a middle name for another 34,636, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 62nd, between Ewelina (36,185) and Lidia (34,633).
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60
36,564Hanna
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61
36,185Ewelina
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6234,636Klaudia
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63
34,633Lidia
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64
33,616Aniela
When Klaudia celebrates name day
Klaudia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 20 March.