Kordula
From the Latin for "little heart", carried today by just over a hundred women in Poland. No girls have been given it in a quarter century, so meeting a Kordula would stay with you.
Kordula Pronunciation
Kordula is pronounced kor-DOO-lah (/kɔrˈdula/).
What Kordula means
Where Kordula comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kordula comes from Latin. The root is cor, cordis, the word for heart. Add the diminutive suffix -ula and the sense narrows to little heart, serduszko in Polish.
The name holds one documented bearer from legend. Saint Cordula was counted among the companions of Saint Ursula. The story has Ursula and her women killed at Cologne, while Cordula hid on a ship and outlived them by a day. The Church keeps her feast on 22 October, and that is the day Polish calendars mark Kordula's imieniny.
In a Polish class register today, Kordula stands out as an old spelling that few children carry. The meaning stays legible all the same. It has no diminutives or variants to soften it, so the reader meets the bare word. Cor, cordis at the front, -ula at the end, little heart.
When Kordula celebrates name day
Kordula appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 22 October.
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 Kordula
1 in 216768 women in Poland is named Kordula. 104 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3350 among female names.
Kordula as a middle name
Kordula is a first name for 104 women in Poland and a middle name for another 117, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 608th, between Camille (117) and Kryspina (117).
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#606 Petra118
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#607 Camille117
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#608 Kordula117
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#609 Kryspina117
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#610 Ania116