Klaudia
Feminine · “Latin claudus”
Roman families were named for their defects. Claudius means lame. Cicero is a chickpea, from a wart. Naso is big-nosed, Crassus is fat, Balbus stammers, Caecus is blind, Strabo squints. A Roman aristocrat carried his ancestor's disability as a badge of honor.
How old is the name Klaudia?
Klaudia first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Klaudia alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,000 people named Klaudia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klaudia most popular?
Klaudia peaked in 1997, reaching #2776 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 6,681 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From claudus to Klaudia
The story of Klaudia
The Roman cognomen was originally a nickname attached to a branch of a clan, and a remarkable number of them name physical peculiarities. Claudius is lame. Cicero comes from cicer, a chickpea, said to refer to a wart on an ancestor's nose; when advised to change it before entering politics he said he would make it more famous than the Metelli. Naso is nose, Nasica sharp-nosed, Crassus fat, Balbus a stammerer, Caecus blind, Strabo cross-eyed, Rufus red-haired, Longus tall, Brutus stupid. These were inherited, so a slender man could be called Crassus and a sighted one Caecus, and the names were sources of pride precisely because they were ancestral. Modern surnames do the same thing more quietly: Cameron is a crooked nose in Gaelic and Campbell a crooked mouth.
Meaning
Latin claudus, lame
Klaudia is the Polish and Hungarian form of Claudia, the feminine of the Roman family name Claudius, from claudus, lame. The K spelling is required in Polish, where the letter c is said ts and cannot represent a k sound in native words. The emperor Claudius, who had a limp and a stammer, bore the name that describes it. The American peak is 1997.
How the name formed
- claudus
- Claudia
- Klaudia
Related forms: Klaudia · Claudia · Klaudia
Pronouncing Klaudia
KLOW-dyah
Three syllables, stress on the first. Polish says the au as ow. English Claudia is KLAW-dee-ah, with a different first vowel and an extra syllable for many speakers.
Nicknames for Klaudia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 200457 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2776reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +42.9%10 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Klaudia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Klaudia in Polish — same name
- Claudia in English — spelling variant
- Klaudia in Hungarian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, New Jersey.
Klaudias among us
people named Klaudia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Klaudia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Klaudia
- #9457
- Klaudia on the 2025 chart
- #733
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Klaudia went to 10 girls in 2025, but Claudia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 229, which makes it the 733rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,724 places above the chart.
- Claudia219
- Klaudia10
About 1 girl in 7,019 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Klaudia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Takeya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Klaudia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Takeya climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Takeya's path sketches the road Klaudia is walking now.
Klaudia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Klaudia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Klaudia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is the standard spelling in Polish and Hungarian.
- Claudia is available as the English equivalent.
- The Latin origin is documented and unambiguous.
- Claudia is the standard English spelling.
- The underlying Latin word means lame.
- Polish and English pronounce the first vowel differently.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klaudias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Klaudia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Klaudia?
- Klaudia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Claudia is the more common one — 219 births in 2025 against 10 for Klaudia.
- How popular is the name Klaudia in 2025?
- Klaudia ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Klaudia?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Klaudia — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Klaudia with classmates?
- Klaudia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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