Girl · Polish literary coinage, perhaps from Lithuanian
Grażyna
Say it: grah-ZHIH-nah
Meaning
Coined by Adam Mickiewicz for the heroine of his poem Grażyna (1823); it is usually linked to Lithuanian gražus 'beautiful', but this is not certain.
Disputedsharp disagreement, or a popular meaning that is not supported.
A literary name that became very common among Polish girls born in the 1950s and 1960s, now rare.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Lithuanian | Gražina |
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Famous bearers
- Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish composer
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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