Aneta
Around 151,000 Polish women carry it, but it has nearly stopped being given: just 20 newborn girls last year. Slavic at root, it means "grace".
Aneta Pronunciation
Aneta is pronounced ah-NE-tah (/aˈnɛta/).
What Aneta means
Where Aneta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aneta comes to us with a Slavic origin, and it keeps close company with its variant Anetta, a single letter heavier on the page. The two forms trade places easily on Polish documents, so a girl written down as Aneta in one register might sign Anetta on another.
The meaning attached to the name is "grace," in Polish łaska and wdzięk. That sense of grace came to the name as a later association rather than as a literal root, the way a meaning settles onto a name over generations of use. It is worth holding the two apart. The Slavic origin is the ground; grace is the reading laid over it.
Every Aneta in Poland has a date of her own. Her imieniny falls on 16 June, and for many families the name-day matters more than the birthday, marked with flowers and a small cake at work.
Picture the class register on a September morning, the teacher reading down the column and pausing at Aneta, then Aneta again two rows later. Short name. Two syllables of wdzięk.
When Aneta celebrates name day
Aneta appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 16 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Aneta
1 in 149 women in Poland is named Aneta. 151,478 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #96 among female names.
Aneta's popularity over time
20 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #506 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #96 name among living women, even as it slips to #506 among newborns.
Where parents choose Aneta
Aneta is most popular in Silesian, 55% above the national average (37 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+47%) and Greater Poland (+15%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Lubusz, 66% and 62% below average respectively.
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Silesian
+55%1 in 6,151 babies
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Lesser Poland
+47%1 in 6,483 babies
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Greater Poland
+15%1 in 8,279 babies
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Holy Cross
−66%1 in 27,717 babies
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Lubusz
−62%1 in 24,829 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−47%1 in 17,948 babies
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Silesian+55% 37 born1 in 6,151 babies+55%
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Lesser Poland+47% 35 born1 in 6,483 babies+47%
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Greater Poland+15% 26 born1 in 8,279 babies+15%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+4% 12 born1 in 9,115 babies+4%
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Lower Silesian−3% 16 born1 in 9,821 babies−3%
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Masovian−3% 36 born1 in 9,841 babies−3%
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Pomeranian−10% 14 born1 in 10,523 babies−10%
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Opole−17% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies−17%
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Subcarpathian−21% 10 born1 in 12,057 babies−21%
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West Pomeranian−21% 7 born1 in 12,061 babies−21%
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Łódź−25% 10 born1 in 12,672 babies−25%
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Podlaskie−28% 5 born1 in 13,157 babies−28%
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Lublin−35% 7 born1 in 14,668 babies−35%
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Warmian-Masurian−47% 4 born1 in 17,948 babies−47%
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Lubusz−62% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies−62%
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Holy Cross−66% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−66%
Aneta as a middle name
Aneta is a first name for 151,478 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32,885, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 65th, between Aniela (33,616) and Władysława (32,619).
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#63 Lidia34,633
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#64 Aniela33,616
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#65 Aneta32,885
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#66 Władysława32,619
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#67 Mariola31,537