Afina
A Greek name meaning "wisdom", built from Athena. Almost unknown in Poland until the 2020s, it's climbing now: most Poles have never met one, though more girls received it last year than before.
Afina Pronunciation
Afina is pronounced ah-FEE-nah (/aˈfina/).
What Afina means
Where Afina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Afina is the Russian and Ukrainian rendering of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. In Cyrillic it is written Афина. That spelling brings the old Greek root straight into Slavic speech, and the short meaning attached to it stays plain: wisdom.
Athena came to the Greeks as the patron of strategy and skilled craft, born fully grown from the head of Zeus. The Slavic form kept her wisdom and let the mythology thin out. A child listed as Afina on a Polish class register stands a little apart. The name is rare here, and it points back to a source most of her classmates meet only in old stories.
There are no common diminutives. That absence is part of its character. The wisdom belongs to the goddess first, and Afina is simply Athena spoken in Cyrillic, Афина.
How many people are named Afina
1 in 204944 women in Poland is named Afina. 110 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3247 among female names.
Afina's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #625 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.
Where Afina is most popular
Afina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 257% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+194%) and Lesser Poland (+6%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 30% and 26% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian7 girls born+257%
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Masovian13 girls born+194%
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Lesser Poland3 girls born+6%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−26%
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Silesian2 girls born−30%
Afina as a middle name
Afina is a first name for 110 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4528th, between Aditi (3) and Agnessa (3).
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#4526 Adesuwa3
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#4527 Aditi3
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#4528 Afina3
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#4529 Agnessa3
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#4530 Aguinaldo3