Majka
A Slavic pet form of Maria, a close cousin of Maja. It still sits inside the top thousand girls' names, but only barely: most Poles have never met one, and the few newborns given it each year keep dwindling.
Majka Pronunciation
Majka is pronounced MAHY-kah (/ˈmajka/).
What Majka means
Where Majka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Majka grew out of Maria, one of the small, familiar shapes Polish speakers give to a longer name. Its short meaning is just that, a diminutive of Maria, holding the nearness a nickname carries. Slavic speech did the softening, turning Maria into something quicker on the tongue.
Alongside Majka run its variants Maja and Maia, and the line between them has blurred over the years. Maja stands on its own for many Polish girls. Majka keeps a warmer, home-worn tone. On a school register a teacher may read the name aloud, and the class already knows her.
Maria itself reaches back through Latin and Greek to the Hebrew Miryam, so Majka sits at the close of a long line. Two syllables, and you are done. What stays is plain: Majka, a Polish diminutive of Maria.
How many people are named Majka
1 in 18771 women in Poland is named Majka. 1,201 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #882 among female names.
Majka's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1285 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #882 name among living women, even as it slips to #1285 among newborns.
Where parents choose Majka
Majka is most popular in Lublin, 224% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+84%) and Lower Silesian (+76%). It is least common in Masovian and Łódź, 22% and 13% below average respectively.
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Lublin
+224%1 in 17,113 babies
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Subcarpathian
+84%1 in 30,141 babies
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Lower Silesian
+76%1 in 31,427 babies
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Masovian
−22%1 in 70,853 babies
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Łódź
−13%1 in 63,359 babies
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Lublin+224% 6 born1 in 17,113 babies+224%
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Subcarpathian+84% 4 born1 in 30,141 babies+84%
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Lower Silesian+76% 5 born1 in 31,427 babies+76%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+52% 3 born1 in 36,460 babies+52%
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Silesian+46% 6 born1 in 37,931 babies+46%
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Greater Poland+29% 5 born1 in 43,049 babies+29%
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Pomeranian+13% 3 born1 in 49,107 babies+13%
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Łódź−13% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies−13%
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Masovian−22% 5 born1 in 70,853 babies−22%
Majka as a middle name
Majka is a first name for 1,201 women in Poland and a middle name for another 226, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 448th, between Benigna (226) and Miranda (226).
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#446 Mae227
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#447 Benigna226
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#448 Majka226
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#449 Miranda226
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#450 Eunika225