Entry № 2094 · Latin origin

Claudia Claudia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLAW-dee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Lame / enclosure (Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "lame / enclosure (claudia sheinbaum, mexico's first female president)".

Claudia is the feminine of Claudius — from the Latin claudus ("lame") or perhaps an Etruscan name.

Subject of countless tributes to Sheinbaum's 2024 inauguration.

Lame / enclosure.

The name in its native script.

Claudia
Transliteration
Claudia
Pronunciation
/ ˈklɔː.di.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Claudia stands.

Claudia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Claudias before her.

Real people
Claudia Sheinbaum
First female President of Mexico.
born 1962
Claudia Goldin
American Nobel economist.
born 1946
Claudia Cardinale
Italian-Tunisian actress.
1938 – 2025
Claudia Schiffer
German supermodel.
born 1970
In fiction
Claudia
Interview with the Vampire.
1976

Names connected to Claudia.

The number behind Claudia.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Claudia reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.