Alevtina
Only about a hundred women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Slavic name meaning "truth", given to girls only.
Alevtina Pronunciation
What Alevtina means
Where Alevtina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alevtina grew up in Russian, and its origin is Slavic. The name holds the sense of truth, prawda in Polish. That meaning looks like something attached over time, not a root you can dig out of its first syllable.
Church tradition ties Alevtina to Saint Valentina of Caesarea, an early Christian martyr, and Russian usage kept the name near that older figure. The two names sit close enough that people have long treated one as a shadow of the other. Alevtina stands on its own all the same, with no common diminutive to soften it.
A short name to carry. On a Polish class register it would sit apart from the Zuzannas and Amelias, plainly from elsewhere. The name day for an Alevtina follows the saint behind the name. What stays fixed is the gloss the name wears in Russian: truth, prawda.
How many people are named Alevtina
1 in 218872 women in Poland is named Alevtina. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3362 among female names.