Bazyla
From the Greek *basileus*, a king: the name carries the sense of royal and dignified. Most Poles will never meet a Bazyla, and it draws no newborns now, so it lands as something old and formal.
Bazyla Pronunciation
Bazyla is pronounced bah-ZIH-lah (/baˈzɨla/).
What Bazyla means
Where Bazyla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bazyla comes from the Greek basileus, the word for a king. From there the name took its meaning: royal, kingly, dignified. The feminine Bazyla stands next to the masculine Bazyli, its cross-gender twin, while Bazylia works as a close variant.
That same Greek root travelled far. It gave Europe the basilica, once a royal hall and law court, and it gave the herb its name, bazylia in Polish. A girl called Bazyla shares a root with a plant on the windowsill and with a king's court.
Majesty reached the name through its bearers too. Bazyli was borne by Basil the Great, a fourth-century bishop remembered across the Eastern church. Bazyla is rare now. Read from a class register, it lands as something old and formal, closer to królewska than to any nickname. The short meaning holds: royal, dignified.
When Bazyla celebrates name day
Bazyla appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 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 Bazyla
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Bazyla. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #20130 among female names.
Bazyla as a middle name
Bazyla is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5604th, between Batoul (2) and Beatrica (2).
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#5602 Batel2
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#5603 Batoul2
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#5604 Bazyla2
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#5605 Beatrica2
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#5606 Beatricza2