Damla
Turkish for "water drop". Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and none have been born in recent years, so most Poles have never met one.
Damla Pronunciation
Damla is pronounced DAHM-lah (/ˈdamla/).
What Damla means
Where Damla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Damla is a Turkish name, and its origin sits outside the Slavic and Latin families that fill most Polish registers. The grounding marks it plainly as other. Its meaning is a drop of water, in Polish kropla, and the word carries no ornament beyond that.
In Turkish, damla is an everyday noun before anyone wears it. You ask for a damla of rain or of medicine, then you meet a girl who answers to the same sound. That doubling gives the name its texture. A bearer holds a common word as her own, much as a Polish Jagoda or Kalina does.
The word came first.
On a Polish class register, Damla lands among the Zuzannas and Amelias as something from elsewhere, short and easy to read aloud. It has no fixed day in the Polish name-day calendar, so an imieniny for a Damla would be improvised rather than inherited. What stays fixed is the meaning under the five letters: a single drop of water, kropla.
How many people are named Damla
1 in 259125 women in Poland is named Damla. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3769 among female names.
Damla as a middle name
Damla is a first name for 87 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1905th, between Crystal (15) and Daromiła (15).
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#1903 Courtney15
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#1904 Crystal15
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#1905 Damla15
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#1906 Daromiła15
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#1907 Delphine15