Trauta
Only 61 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been named Trauta this century: it's passing out of use. A Germanic name at root, built on the sense of "strength".
Trauta Pronunciation
Trauta is pronounced trah-OO-tah (/traˈuta/).
What Trauta means
Where Trauta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Trauta comes from the Germanic word for strength. The element sits at the end of many old names, spelled -trud, -traut, or -traud, and it traces back to Proto-Germanic þrūþiz, "strength". Waltraud carries it. So does Edeltraud, where "noble" joins the same root. Trauta is the short form standing on its own, cut loose from the longer compound.
The German short form Traute belongs to the same family. In Polish the ending shifts to -a, and Trauta reads as a woman's name at once. A teacher calling the register would not stumble on it.
The Polish gloss is siła, moc. That reading is not decoration. It is the literal root, the thing the syllable meant before it was ever a name. Where many names gather their meaning slowly, Trauta wears its oldest sense plainly: strength.
How many people are named Trauta
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Trauta. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4730 among female names.
Trauta as a middle name
Trauta is a first name for 61 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2116th, between Talia (13) and Ulryka (13).
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#2114 Shanti13
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#2115 Talia13
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#2116 Trauta13
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#2117 Ulryka13
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#2118 Wally13