Agrypina
A Greek name meaning "born feet first". Barely 36 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Agrypina Pronunciation
Agrypina is pronounced ahg-rih-PEE-nah (/agrɨˈpina/).
What Agrypina means
Where Agrypina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Agrypina comes from Greek. The old form Agríppas joins ágra, the hunt or the catch, with poús, the foot. From that pairing grew a stubborn reading of the name: born feet first, the breech child who arrives the hard way.
A second gloss lives in Polish sources, dziki koń, the wild horse. A foot that will not be led, a horse that will not be broken. Both point one way, toward something that resists an easy grip.
The name has a documented bearer in Agrippina the Younger, who lived from 15 to 59 AD and was the mother of the emperor Nero. Roman, formidable, and slow to yield.
In Poland the name is rare now. Read from a class dziennik, Agrypina lands with weight, an old Greek foot planted in a modern classroom. The meaning underneath holds: born feet first.
When Agrypina celebrates name day
Agrypina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Agrypina
1 in 626218 women in Poland is named Agrypina. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6538 among female names.
Agrypina as a middle name
Agrypina is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1328th, between Yasmine (29) and Aicha (28).
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#1326 Véronique29
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#1327 Yasmine29
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#1328 Agrypina28
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#1329 Aicha28
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#1330 Alwina28