Klotylda
Just 63 women in Poland carry this name, and none has been given to a newborn in years. Germanic at root, it means "famous in battle".
Klotylda Pronunciation
Klotylda is pronounced klo-TIHL-dah (/klɔˈtɨlda/).
What Klotylda means
Where Klotylda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Klotylda comes from Germanic roots. The first element, hlod, means fame or glory. The second, hild, means battle. Germanic families liked to bind such elements into one name, and this is one of them. Together they give the sense recorded here: famous in battle, in Polish sławna w walce.
History gives the name a real bearer. Clotilde, born around 474, was a Frankish queen and the wife of Clovis I. Church tradition credits her with drawing him toward baptism. Her feast falls on 3 June, and Polish calendars still mark Klotylda near that date.
The name reached Poland as a borrowing and never grew common. A small number of women carried it, mostly in parish records and old school registers. A teacher reading the class register aloud pauses on the final a. The old meaning holds. Famous in battle.
When Klotylda celebrates name day
Klotylda appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 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 Klotylda
1 in 357839 women in Poland is named Klotylda. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4623 among female names.
Klotylda as a middle name
Klotylda is a first name for 63 women in Poland and a middle name for another 89, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 710th, between Kay (89) and Marysia (89).
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#708 Iweta89
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#709 Kay89
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#710 Klotylda89
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#711 Marysia89
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#712 Kaya88