Amaranta
Barely anyone in Poland carries it: five women in all, and no newborn has taken it in years. The name means "unfading", from Greek amarantos and the amaranth, a flower that keeps its red long after it is cut.
Amaranta Pronunciation
Amaranta is pronounced ah-mah-RAHN-tah (/amaˈranta/).
What Amaranta means
Where Amaranta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Amaranta grows from Greek "amarantos," unfading. The word joins "a," not, to "marainein," to wither. The Greeks gave that name to the amaranth, a flower that keeps its color long after it is cut. Dried, it does not fade. The short meaning sits right on the surface: unfading.
The name settled in Italian and Spanish, where the amaranth is a common garden and field plant. Its best-known bearer is fictional. Gabriel García Márquez gave the name to a Buendía daughter, and a generation later to Amaranta Úrsula, in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967). Both hold their place across the whole novel.
In Polish the sense reads as niewygasająca, niezniszczalna. On a class register the name would stand alone, with no diminutive to shorten it. What stays is the Greek root: unfading.
When Amaranta celebrates name day
Amaranta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 November.
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 Amaranta
1 in 4508767 women in Poland is named Amaranta. 5 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24928 among female names.
Amaranta as a middle name
Amaranta is a first name for 5 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3490th, between Almudena (5) and Amie (5).
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#3488 Alita5
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#3489 Almudena5
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#3490 Amaranta5
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#3491 Amie5
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#3492 Aminat5