Entry № 5532 · Russian origin

Klavdia Klavdia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLAHV-dee-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Lame (Russian Claudia)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "lame (russian claudia)".

Klavdia (Клавдия) is the Russian form of Claudia — from the Latin claudus, meaning "lame." Used widely in Russia and Ukraine.

Klavdiya Shulzhenko (1906-1984) was the famous Soviet singer.

Russian Claudia. The Soviet diva.

The name in its native script.

Клавдия
Transliteration
Klavdiya
Pronunciation
/ ˈklɑːv.di.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Klavdia stands.

Klavdia 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.

Klavdias before her.

Real people
Klavdiya Shulzhenko
Soviet singer.
1906 – 1984
In fiction
Klavdia
Common in Russian fiction.

Names connected to Klavdia.

The number behind Klavdia.

6

The Nurturer

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