Seweryna
From the Latin for "stern, serious": the feminine of Seweryn. It barely registers in Poland now, with only around 800 women carrying it and a handful of newborns across recent years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Seweryna Pronunciation
Seweryna is pronounced se-ve-RIH-nah (/sɛvɛˈrɨna/).
What Seweryna means
Where Seweryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Seweryna comes from the Latin Severus, meaning stern and serious, which produced the Roman name Severinus. From that same root Polish took the masculine Seweryn, with the older spelling severyn beside it, and Seweryna is its feminine turn. The Polish gloss keeps the edge of the Latin: surowy, poważny.
The sternness was a real man's reputation before it was a girl's name. Saint Severinus of Noricum spent the fifth century among the Danube towns, and the church calendar carried his name eastward until it settled a name-day in Poland.
Picture the class register. A teacher reads Seweryna aloud, and the name lands with more weight than the softer names around it. Nobody mistakes it for a diminutive. It asks to be said in full.
That weight is not coldness. A serious name can be worn lightly by a warm person, and most Sewerynas spend a lifetime proving the gap between a word and its bearer. The meaning stays fixed while the girl does not: surowy, poważny, and yet entirely her own.
When Seweryna celebrates name day
Seweryna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 17 October.
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 Seweryna
1 in 27695 women in Poland is named Seweryna. 814 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1045 among female names.
Seweryna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Seweryna as a middle name
Seweryna is a first name for 814 women in Poland and a middle name for another 880, a 48/52 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 259th, between Noemi (899) and Elisabeth (869).
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#257 Grace908
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#258 Noemi899
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#259 Seweryna880
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#260 Elisabeth869
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#261 Stella861