Medarda
Only 13 women in Poland carry Medarda, so most Poles will never meet one, and no girl has been given it in years. A Latin name at root, it means "strong and brave".
Medarda Pronunciation
Medarda is pronounced me-DAHR-dah (/mɛˈdarda/).
What Medarda means
Where Medarda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Medarda reached Polish through Latin, in the form Medardus, and the feminine Medarda followed the same road. The name belongs to the calendar as much as to any person. Saint Medard, a bishop who lived in sixth-century Gaul, gave it a place in the Church, and his day falls on the eighth of June.
In Poland that date carries a weather proverb. If it rains on Medard's day, the rain can hold for six weeks. The name sits in almanacs and old farming rhymes, next to a forecast.
The sense listed beside Medarda in Polish is mocna i odważna, strong and brave. That reading came to the name over time. A girl called Medarda meets it first on a class register, printed among far more common names. It is rare. The short meaning stays plain: strong and brave.
When Medarda celebrates name day
Medarda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 8 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 Medarda
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Medarda. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13517 among female names.
Medarda as a middle name
Medarda is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2307th, between Mazvita (11) and Melike (11).
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#2305 Maryia11
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#2306 Mazvita11
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#2307 Medarda11
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#2308 Melike11
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#2309 Milind11