Aniceta
Just 334 Polish women carry it, and not one baby has been given the name since at least 2000. From Greek, it means "unconquerable": a name most Poles will never meet in person.
Aniceta Pronunciation
Aniceta is pronounced ah-nyee-TSE-tah (/aɲiˈt͡sɛta/).
What Aniceta means
Where Aniceta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aniceta comes from the Greek aniketos, meaning unconquerable. The word joins the negative prefix a- to a root from nikan, to conquer, so the name refuses defeat at the level of its parts. In Polish that reads as niezwyciężony. The masculine form is Anicet, and the two have moved together through Polish parish records for a long time.
The name has a documented ancient bearer. Anicetus led the church at Rome around the middle of the second century, and it later counted him among its early popes. His name outlived his office. It reached Poland through the Latin calendar, where saints' feasts brought Greek names into everyday use.
Aniceta is rare now. You might meet it once on a school class register, an older relative christened long ago. The name-day falls in spring. What holds under the sound is a single word: unconquerable, and beside it the partner form Anicet.
When Aniceta celebrates name day
Aniceta appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 January.
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 Aniceta
1 in 67497 women in Poland is named Aniceta. 334 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1650 among female names.
Aniceta as a middle name
Aniceta is a first name for 334 women in Poland and a middle name for another 134, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 566th, between Nelly (135) and Wincenta (134).
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#564 Linh135
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#565 Nelly135
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#566 Aniceta134
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#567 Wincenta134
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#568 Afrodyta133