Claudia (given name)
Pronunciation | Italian: [ˈklaudja] |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Meaning | Lameness[1] or enclosure[2] |
Region of origin | Italy |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Klaudia, Cláudia |
Related names | Claudius, Claude, Claudine, Claudiu, Claudio |
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Claudia is a female given name equivalent to Claudius or Claudio. In Portuguese it is accented Cláudia. It was originally used to refer to any woman who belonged to the ancient Roman Claudia gens.
The name may refer to:
- Claudia of Chalon (1498–1521), nobility
- Claudia Felicitas of Austria (1653–1676), Holy Roman Empress
- Cláudia Abreu (born 1970), Brazilian actress
- Claudia Alexander (1959–2015), NASA scientist and project manager
- Claudia Bandion-Ortner (born 1966), Austrian judge and politician
- Claudia Bär (born 1980), German canoer
- Claudia Beamish (born 1952), Scottish politician
- Claudia Beni (born 1986), Croatian singer
- Claudia Black (born 1972), Australian actress
- Claudia Bryar (1918–2011), American actress
- Claudia Bühlmann, Swiss bobsledder
- Claudia Cardinale (born 1938), Italian actress
- Cláudia Cepeda (born 1967), Brazilian actress
- Claudia Christian (born 1965), American actress
- Claudia Ciesla (born 1987), German model and actress
- Claudia Cowan, American journalist
- Claudia Czado, German statistician
- Claudia Doumit, American cinema actress
- Claudia Dreher (born 1971), German runner
- Claudia Pond Eyley (born 1946), New Zealand artist and filmmaker
- Claudia Fährenkemper (born 1959), German photographer
- Claudia Faniello (born 1988), Maltese singer
- Claudia Fontaine (1960-2018), English singer
- Claudia Fontán (born 1966), Argentine actress
- Claudia Fragapane (born 1997), British artistic gymnast
- Claudia Franco (born 1975), Spanish swimmer
- Claudia Giovine (born 1990), Italian tennis player
- Claudia di Girolamo (born 1956), Chilean actress
- Cláudia Graner (born 1974), Brazilian water polo player
- Claudia Hammond (born 1971), British author and journalist
- Claudia Haro, American actress
- Claudia Hempel (born 1958), German swimmer
- Claudia Hürtgen (born 1971), German race driver
- Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (born 1984), Polish tennis player
- Claudia Jennings (1949–1979), American model and actress
- Claudia L. Johnson, American literary scholar
- Claudia Jones (1915–1964), Trinidad-born journalist and activist
- Claudia Jordan (born 1973), American model
- Claudia Jung (born 1964), German singer and politician
- Klaudia Kaczorowska (born 1988), Polish volleyball player
- Claudia Karvan (born 1972), Australian actress
- Claudia Kemfert (born 1968), German economist
- Claudia J. Kennedy (born 1947), United States Army general
- Claudia Kim (born 1985), South Korean actress
- Claudia Klüppelberg, German statistician
- Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (born 1963), German tennis player
- Claudia Koll (born 1965), Italian actress and missionary
- Klaudia Koronel (born 1975), Filipino actress and businesswoman
- Klaudia Kovács, Hungarian-American actress and film director
- Klaudia Kovács (born 1990), Hungarian footballer
- Claudia Kreuzig Grinnell, German-American poet
- Claudia Kristofics-Binder (born 1961), Austrian figure skater
- Claudia Lawrence (born 1974), British missing person
- Claudia Leistner (born 1965), German figure skater
- Claudia Leitte (born 1980), Brazilian singer
- Claudia Lennear, American singer
- Claudia Lichtenberg (born 1985), German cyclist
- Claudia Losch (born 1960), German shot putter
- Claudia Lösch (born 1988), Austrian alpine skier
- Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, American children's author
- Claudia Malvenuto, Italian mathematician
- Claudia Melchers (born 1969), Dutch kidnap victim
- Claudia Mo (born 1957), Hong Kong journalist and politician
- Claudia Moatti (born 1954), French historian specialised in Roman Studies
- Cláudia Monteiro (born 1961), Brazilian tennis player
- Claudia Müller (footballer) (born 1974), German footballer
- Claudia Müller-Ebeling (born 1956), German anthropologist and art historian
- Cláudia das Neves (born 1975), Brazilian basketball player
- Claudia Novelo (born 1965), Mexican swimmer
- Claudia Nystad (born 1978), German skier
- Claudia O'Doherty (born 1983), Australian comedienne and actress
- Claudia Ortiz (born 1981), Peruvian beauty pageant contestant
- Claudia Palacios (born 1977), Colombian journalist
- Claudia M. Palena, Argentine-American immunologist and cancer researcher
- Claudia Pandolfi (born 1974), Italian actress
- Cláudia Pascoal (born 1994), Portuguese singer
- Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian singer
- Claudia Pavlovich Arellano (born 1969), Mexican politician and lawyer
- Claudia Pechstein (born 1972), German speed skater
- Claudia Polini, Italian-American mathematician
- Claudia Poll (born 1972), Costa Rican swimmer
- Claudia Porwik (born 1968), German tennis player
- Claudia Presăcan (born 1979), Romanian gymnast
- Claudia Riegler (born 1973), Austrian snowboarder
- Claudia Riegler (born 1976), New Zealand alpine skier
- Claudia Rivas (born 1989), Mexican triathlete
- Claudia Roth (born 1955), German politician
- Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), German model and actress
- Klaudia Schifferle (born 1955), Swiss painter and musician
- Claudia Sheinbaum (born 1962), Mexican scientist, politician, and Mayor of Mexico City
- Claudia Ștef (born 1978), Romanian race walker
- Klaudia Szemerey-Pataki (born 1976), Hungarian politician
- Klaudia Taev (1906–1985), Estonian vocal pedagogue
- Klaudia Tanner (born 1970), Austrian politician and cabinet minister
- Klaudia Tasz (born 1973), Polish ski mountaineer
- Claudia Tavel (born 1989), Bolivian beauty pageant contestant
- Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (Lady Bird Johnson, 1912–2007), First Lady of the United States
- Klaudia Tiitsmaa (born 1990), Estonian actress
- Claudia van den Heiligenberg (born 1985), Dutch footballer
- Claudia Velásquez (born 1975), Peruvian swimmer
- Claudia Webbe, British politician
- Claudia Wells (born 1966), American actress
- Claudia Winkleman (born 1972), English journalist
- Ana Cláudia Lemos (born 1988), Brazilian sprinter
- Ana Cláudia Michels (born 1981), Brazilian model
Fictional characters[]
- Claudia, a Spanish nail salon beautician in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Claudia Blaisdel Carrington, character in the television series Dynasty
- Claudia Bradford, a character on the TV sitcom Three's a Crowd
- Claudia Brown, from ITV's Primeval
- Claudia Donovan, a character in the television series Warehouse 13
- Claudia Enfield, character in the light novel series The Asterisk War
- Claudia Grant, Robotech character
- Claudia Hammond, Home and Away character
- Claudia Hernandez, character in the television series 24
- Claudia Joy Holden, character in the television series Army Wives
- Claudia Kincaid, protagonist of E. L. Konigsburg's novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Claudia Lynn Kishi, from Ann Martin's book series The Baby-Sitters Club
- Claudia LaSalle, Macross character
- Claudia Mockelberg, a character in Robin Cook's Mortal Fear.
- Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles), from Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
- Claudia Wolf, the antagonist of the video game Silent Hill 3
- Claudia Zacchara (born 1969), General Hospital character
- C. J. Cregg, Claudia Jean Cregg, a character in the television series The West Wing
- ^ "Meaning, origin, and history of the name Claudius". Behind The Name.
- ^ "Claudia – Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity". Retrieved February 11, 2022.
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