Aneta
Around 151,000 Polish women carry it, but it has nearly stopped being given: just 20 newborn girls last year. Slavic at root, it means "grace".
Aneta Pronunciation
Aneta is pronounced ah-NE-tah (/aˈnɛta/).
What Aneta means
Where Aneta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aneta comes to us with a Slavic origin, and it keeps close company with its variant Anetta, a single letter heavier on the page. The two forms trade places easily on Polish documents, so a girl written down as Aneta in one register might sign Anetta on another.
The meaning attached to the name is "grace," in Polish łaska and wdzięk. That sense of grace came to the name as a later association rather than as a literal root, the way a meaning settles onto a name over generations of use. It is worth holding the two apart. The Slavic origin is the ground; grace is the reading laid over it.
Every Aneta in Poland has a date of her own. Her imieniny falls on 16 June, and for many families the name-day matters more than the birthday, marked with flowers and a small cake at work.
Picture the class register on a September morning, the teacher reading down the column and pausing at Aneta, then Aneta again two rows later. Short name. Two syllables of wdzięk.
When Aneta celebrates name day
Aneta appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 16 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Aneta
1 in 149 women in Poland is named Aneta. 151,478 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #96 among female names.
Aneta's popularity over time
20 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #506 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #96 name among living women, even as it slips to #506 among newborns.
Where Aneta is most popular
Aneta is most popular in Silesian, 55% above the national average (37 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+47%) and Greater Poland (+15%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Lubusz, 66% and 62% below average respectively.
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Silesian37 girls born+55%
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Lesser Poland35 girls born+47%
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Greater Poland26 girls born+15%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian12 girls born+4%
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Lower Silesian16 girls born−3%
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Masovian36 girls born−3%
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Pomeranian14 girls born−10%
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Opole4 girls born−17%
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Subcarpathian10 girls born−21%
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West Pomeranian7 girls born−21%
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Łódź10 girls born−25%
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Podlaskie5 girls born−28%
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Lublin7 girls born−35%
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Warmian-Masurian4 girls born−47%
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Lubusz2 girls born−62%
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Świętokrzyskie2 girls born−66%
Aneta as a middle name
Aneta is a first name for 151,478 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32,885, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 65th, between Aniela (33,616) and Władysława (32,619).
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#63 Lidia34,633
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#64 Aniela33,616
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#65 Aneta32,885
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#66 Władysława32,619
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#67 Mariola31,537