Batia
Hebrew at root, from a name meaning "daughter of god". In Poland it barely registers: only about 38 women carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Batia Pronunciation
Batia is pronounced BAHT-yah (/ˈbatja/).
What Batia means
Where Batia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Batia comes from Hebrew. Break the name apart and you find bat, daughter, and Yah, a shortened name of God. The short meaning follows plainly: daughter of God, córka boga in Polish.
The name belongs to Jewish tradition, where it attaches to one woman. In the Hebrew Bible, Batia appears in the Book of Chronicles (1 Chronicles 4:18) as a daughter of Pharaoh. Rabbinic tradition went further. The Talmud (Megillah 13a) identifies her as the Egyptian princess who lifted the infant Moses from the river. One midrash reads her name as a title granted by God: because she raised a child who was not born to her, she was called his daughter.
Batia has no diminutive and no variant in the record given here. It stands alone. In a Polish school register the name reads as foreign, a single line among the Zuzannas and Julias. A teacher calling it from the list meets a name with no nickname to fall back on. That is the whole of it: bat and Yah, daughter of God.
How many people are named Batia
1 in 593259 women in Poland is named Batia. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6321 among female names.
Batia as a middle name
Batia is a first name for 38 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2532nd, between Ayala (9) and Casandra (9).
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#2530 Augustina9
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#2531 Ayala9
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#2532 Batia9
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#2533 Casandra9
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#2534 Ching9