Witolda
The feminine counterpart to Witold, from a Lithuanian name meaning "leader of the people". Only about 50 Polish women carry it and no girl has been given it this century, so meeting one would stay with you.
Witolda Pronunciation
Witolda is pronounced vee-TOL-dah (/viˈtɔlda/).
What Witolda means
Where Witolda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Witolda is the feminine form of Witold, and the Polish spelling of a name that reaches back to Lithuanian. Behind it stands Vytautas, the grand duke who ruled Lithuania in the early fifteenth century and led the Lithuanian forces at Grunwald in 1410. Linguists trace Vytautas to two Old Lithuanian roots, "vyti," to lead or to drive, and "tauta," people or nation. From that pairing comes the meaning Witolda still carries: leader of the people.
The masculine Witold has long been the more common form in Poland, with its own name-day in November. Witolda is rarer. It appears on an official form at the urząd as a woman's version of the same old word, spelled with the same first syllables.
The grandeur falls away in daily use. What remains is Wita.
How many people are named Witolda
1 in 433535 women in Poland is named Witolda. 52 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5237 among female names.
Witolda as a middle name
Witolda is a first name for 52 women in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 999th, between Swietłana (48) and Witosława (48).
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#997 Sonja48
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#998 Swietłana48
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#999 Witolda48
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#1000 Witosława48
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#1001 Anna-Maria47