Romualda
A Germanic name meaning "famous ruler", the feminine counterpart to Romuald. Around 5,000 Polish women carry it, yet not a single girl has been given it since at least 2000, so meeting a young Romualda would catch you off guard.
Romualda Pronunciation
Romualda is pronounced ro-moo-AHL-dah (/rɔmuˈalda/).
What Romualda means
Where Romualda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Romualda comes from the Germanic name Romuald, built from hruom, meaning fame or glory, and wald, meaning rule or power. Put together, they give the short meaning that has followed the name for centuries: famous ruler, or in Polish sławny władca. Romualda is the feminine form of that older masculine name, and the two have travelled side by side ever since.
The masculine form has a well documented bearer. Saint Romuald of Ravenna, born around 952, founded the Camaldolese hermits and is honoured in Poland as the patron of Suwałki. His feast on 19 June is one of the days a Romualda may keep her imieniny, along with 7 February.
A girl named Romualda grows up sharing her name with a brother-word. Read the class register and Romuald sits a line away, the same fame and the same rule split between two endings. The name does not soften its meaning for her. She still carries the sense of a ruler made famous, a sense stamped into the old Germanic roots rather than added later. That is the plain fact of it: sławny władca, in the feminine.
When Romualda celebrates name day
Romualda appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 19 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 Romualda
1 in 4349 women in Poland is named Romualda. 5,184 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #480 among female names.
Romualda as a middle name
Romualda is a first name for 5,184 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,609, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 176th, between Tamara (2,642) and Olimpia (2,548).
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#174 Bernarda2,722
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#175 Tamara2,642
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#176 Romualda2,609
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#177 Olimpia2,548
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#178 Marika2,543