Andromeda
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it: eleven in all, and no girls have been given it this century. Greek at root, its meaning reads "mindful of her husband".
Andromeda Pronunciation
Andromeda is pronounced ahnd-ro-ME-dah (/andrɔˈmɛda/).
What Andromeda means
Where Andromeda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andromeda comes from Greek. It joins andros, "man" or "husband", with a verb for being mindful, so the whole reads as "mindful of her husband." The meaning lives in the parts of the word, and no folk story is needed to explain it.
In myth, Andromeda was a princess chained to a rock by the sea. Perseus freed her and took her as his wife. Later she was placed among the stars, where a constellation still holds the name.
That constellation gave its name to the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral to our own. A girl called Andromeda in a Polish class register shares her name with something two and a half million light-years away. The short meaning stays close and human: myśląca o człowieku, mindful of a person.
When Andromeda celebrates name day
Andromeda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 August.
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 Andromeda
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Andromeda. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14790 among female names.
Andromeda as a middle name
Andromeda is a first name for 11 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 32/68 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1480th, between Alida (23) and Bogumila (23).
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#1478 Abril23
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#1479 Alida23
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#1480 Andromeda23
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#1481 Bogumila23
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#1482 Bridget23