Given name
Leokadia
“lion”
Leokadia is a feminine given name. It is used in Polish.
Original LatinLeocadia
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In German usage, Leokadia is a short form of Katharina.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Leokadia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 0 boys · 55 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 335 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Leokadia’s family of names
In German usage, Leokadia is a short form of Katharina. In Polish usage, Leokadia has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Leocadia. In German usage, Leokadia has a related form in Leocadia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Leokadia has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Leokadia comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Leokadia
- Loda NiemirzankaPolish actress (1909-1984)1906–1984
- Leokadia Serafinowiczchildren's theater director (b. 1915, d. 2007)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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