Andriiana
A Ukrainian name meaning "manly, brave," yet carried entirely by women. Little more than a hundred people in Poland hold it, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Andriiana Pronunciation
Andriiana is pronounced ahndry-YAH-nah (/andrjˈjana/).
What Andriiana means
Where Andriiana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andriiana is a Slavic name with Ukrainian roots. It is built on Andrii, the Ukrainian form of Andrew, and it turns that masculine name toward a woman. The older root behind Andrii means manly and brave. That sense stayed.
The meaning matters here more than most names let it. Andriiana says brave, courageous, strong of spirit, and it says so of a woman. In Ukraine, Andrii ranks among the steadiest men's names, tied to Saint Andrew the Apostle, whom tradition names the first-called of the disciples. Andriiana borrows that lineage and speaks with a feminine ending.
In a Polish szkoła, a class register now carries names like this one, brought by Ukrainian families. A teacher calls out Andriiana on the register. The four syllables hold their shape. The name has no common diminutive of its own. What it offers is the plain sense of its root, the Polish mężny and odważny, given to a girl.
How many people are named Andriiana
1 in 201284 women in Poland is named Andriiana. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3207 among female names.