Chryzanta
From Greek for "golden flower". Only about two dozen women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one and none have been given it in years.
Chryzanta Pronunciation
Chryzanta is pronounced khrih-ZAHN-tah (/xrɨˈzanta/).
What Chryzanta means
Where Chryzanta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Chryzanta comes from Greek. Two roots build it: chrysós, meaning gold, and ánthos, meaning flower. Put together they give złoty kwiat, a golden flower. The same pair sits inside the word chrysanthemum, the bloom Polish speakers call chryzantema.
The name keeps close to that literal sense. It borrows no saint and no legend to explain its color. The gold lives in the etymology, and the flower is one you can grow.
Chryzanta is rare in Poland. On a class register it stands out at once. A teacher reads the name and the room hears złoty kwiat before anyone glosses the Greek. The word does its own work.
There is one more thing worth saying, and it is the plainest. Chryzanta means golden flower, built from chrysós and ánthos.
When Chryzanta celebrates name day
Chryzanta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 October.
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 Chryzanta
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Chryzanta. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8025 among female names.
Chryzanta as a middle name
Chryzanta is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1758th, between Christelle (17) and Coco (17).
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#1756 Büşra17
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#1757 Christelle17
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#1758 Chryzanta17
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#1759 Coco17
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#1760 Danusia17