Alwina
Barely 52 Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met an Alwina. The name comes from Germanic roots and means "elf friend".
Alwina Pronunciation
Alwina is pronounced ahl-VEE-nah (/alˈvina/).
What Alwina means
Where Alwina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alwina comes from Germanic roots. Behind it sit two old elements: alf, meaning elf, and wini, meaning friend. Together they give the sense the name still carries in English, elf friend, and in Polish, przyjaciółka elfów.
The old Germanic imagination did not treat elves as small garden creatures. They were spirits with power over luck and fate, and to be counted their friend marked a person as favored. A child named for that friendship was placed on good terms with the unseen.
Alwina has a close male relative in Alwin, the variant that keeps the same two roots. The two names read almost as one, split only by the final vowel.
On a Polish class register, Alwina sits among names of plainer origin, and its meaning stays hidden until someone asks. It is a rare choice. The answer, when it comes, is short: elf friend, przyjaciółka elfów.
When Alwina celebrates name day
Alwina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 26 May.
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 Alwina
1 in 433535 women in Poland is named Alwina. 52 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5181 among female names.
Alwina as a middle name
Alwina is a first name for 52 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1330th, between Aicha (28) and Andreina (28).
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#1328 Agrypina28
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#1329 Aicha28
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#1330 Alwina28
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#1331 Andreina28
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#1332 Astryda28