Entry № 2200 · Latin origin

Custodia Custodia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koos-TOH-dee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Custody / guardianship"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Portuguese)

A name that means "custody / guardianship".

Custodia is from the Portuguese / Spanish Custódia — from Latin custodia (guardianship, custody). Custodia is one of the Portuguese + Spanish feminine names — central to traditional Iberian Roman Catholic heritage.

Custody / guardianship (Portuguese-Spanish-Latin).

The name in its native script.

Custódia
Transliteration
Custódia
Pronunciation
/ kuːsˈtoʊ.di.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Custodia stands.

Custodia 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.

Custodias before her.

Real people

In fiction
Custodia
Portuguese-Spanish guardianship.

Names connected to Custodia.

The number behind Custodia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Custodia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.