Antanina
Barely 220 women in Poland carry it, so most people will never meet one. A Latin name from the Antonius family, taken to mean "priceless".
Antanina Pronunciation
Antanina is pronounced ahn-tah-NYEE-nah (/antaˈɲina/).
What Antanina means
Where Antanina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Antanina traces back to the Roman family name Antonius, and it is the Latin root that gives the name its frame. Antonina is the more common Polish spelling, with Antanina standing as a variant that keeps the same lineage. The gens Antonia produced Mark Antony, the general whose name spread across the Roman world and later into Christian naming.
The short meaning recorded for it is "priceless," bezcenna, z rodu Antoniuszów. That sense of "priceless" was attached later, since the Antonius name itself has an uncertain, probably Etruscan, background. What survives is the pull toward worth.
Diminutives soften it. Antosia, Tosia, and Tola all grow from the same stem, and each one shortens the formal register into something a child answers to when the teacher reads the class register. The masculine counterpart is Antoni, still one of Poland's most-given boys' names.
Antanina is short. On a name-day it shares the calendar with Antonina, and its meaning holds: bezcenna, z rodu Antoniuszów.
How many people are named Antanina
1 in 102008 women in Poland is named Antanina. 221 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2094 among female names.