Placyda
Fewer than ten Polish women carry it, and no newborn has been given it since at least 2000. From the Latin *placidus*, calm and peaceful, and the name says exactly that: a woman at ease, the feminine of Placyd.
Placyda Pronunciation
Placyda is pronounced plah-TSIH-dah (/plaˈt͡sɨda/).
What Placyda means
Where Placyda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Placyda comes from the Latin placidus, calm and peaceful. The adjective grows from the verb placere, to please, so the oldest sense points to something that settles rather than stirs. A Roman heard the word long before the name.
The meaning stayed literal here. Placyda means spokojna, cicha, a woman at ease. That reading is the Latin word carried straight into Polish, not a virtue attached later by someone reaching for one.
The masculine form Placyd belongs to a sixth-century saint, a young disciple of Benedict of Nursia. Placyda is its feminine counterpart, rarer, holding the same root sense of quiet. On an official form at the urząd, the name still states what placidus stated: calm.
When Placyda celebrates name day
Placyda appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 4 March.
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 Placyda
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Placyda. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21266 among female names.
Placyda as a middle name
Placyda is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 25/75 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1587th, between Patrycia (21) and Princess (21).
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#1585 Noemí21
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#1586 Patrycia21
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#1587 Placyda21
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#1588 Princess21
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#1589 Rafaella21