Dionizja
Just about 20 Polish women carry it, and not one newborn girl has taken it since at least 2000. A Greek name at root: the feminine of Dionizy, "dedicated to the god Dionysus".
Dionizja Pronunciation
Dionizja is pronounced dyo-NYEEZ-yah (/djɔˈɲizja/).
What Dionizja means
Where Dionizja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dionizja comes from Greek. It was built on the name of Dionysus, the god of wine and drama, and the short meaning stays close to that source: dedicated to Dionysus. A name like this once marked a person as belonging to the god.
The masculine counterpart is Dionizy, carried in Poland since Latin took the Greek Dionysios and reshaped it. Beside Dionizja sits the variant Dyoniza, a plainer spelling of the same name. Dionizy claims 9 October, the feast of Saint Dionizy, while Dionizja keeps her imieniny on dates such as 15 May.
Read down a Polish school register today and Dionizja is rare among the Zuzannas and Zofias. The god behind it stays legible in every version: Dionizja, Dyoniza, Dionizy.
When Dionizja celebrates name day
Dionizja appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 February.
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 Dionizja
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Dionizja. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9870 among female names.
Dionizja as a middle name
Dionizja is a first name for 20 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2389th, between Demetria (10) and Domenica (10).
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#2387 Dary10
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#2388 Demetria10
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#2389 Dionizja10
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#2390 Domenica10
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#2391 Dorina10