Eufemia
A Greek name meaning "well-spoken" or "good speech". Fewer than 500 women in Poland carry it and most Poles have never met one, though a handful of girls still get the name each year.
Eufemia Pronunciation
Eufemia is pronounced e-oo-FEM-yah (/ɛuˈfɛmja/).
What Eufemia means
Where Eufemia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eufemia comes from Greek, built from eu, meaning good or well, and phēmē, a word for speech or voice. The name reads as "well-spoken," good speech. Its origin is plain.
Greek phēmē held a second sense. It could mean an utterance taken as a sign, the kind of speech an oracle gives. That is how Polish came to gloss the name as "dobrze wróżąca, pomyślna," the woman of good omen. The good-speech of the Greek and the good-fortune of the Polish sit close together, joined by that older idea of words that foretell.
History gives the name a bearer worth naming: Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon, an early martyr whose feast falls on 16 September. Her cult spread widely, and Polish calendars still mark her imieniny.
Open a class register and Eufemia catches the eye at once, older than the Zuzannas around it. The name asks to be pronounced with care. And it keeps meaning what it first meant: good speech.
When Eufemia celebrates name day
Eufemia appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 19 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 Eufemia
1 in 55802 women in Poland is named Eufemia. 404 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1470 among female names.
Eufemia's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1560 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #1470 name among living women, even as it slips to #1560 among newborns.
Where Eufemia is most popular
Eufemia is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+904%
Eufemia as a middle name
Eufemia is a first name for 404 women in Poland and a middle name for another 317, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 379th, between Kaur (325) and Ala (316).
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#377 Dajana326
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#378 Kaur325
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#379 Eufemia317
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#380 Ala316
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#381 Dalia316