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Florentyna

From the Latin for "blooming, flourishing". Most Poles have never met one, but it's climbing back: more girls were given it last year than in years past, and it belongs entirely to daughters.

Florentyna Pronunciation

Florentyna is pronounced flo-ren-TIH-nah (/flɔrɛnˈtɨna/).

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Alive in 2025
1,624
Newborns 2025
140
National rank
#768
Next name day
20 June
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What Florentyna means

Where Florentyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Florentyna grows from Latin. Its root is florere, to bloom or to flourish, the same verb that stands behind the Roman name Florentinus and behind the Italian city of Florence. A girl given this name is given a word that means, plainly, kwitnąca: blooming.

The masculine form is Florentyn, and it keeps the whole Latin stem intact, so the flowering reads the same whether the name lands on a son or a daughter. The sense of growth is not a later ornament here. It sits in the root, where florens means a plant in full flower and, by extension, a person in the good years of a life.

In Poland the imieniny fall on 20 June and 24 November. Picture a Florentyna finding her name on a school register in a September class, four syllables against the short Anias and Zosias around her. The word she carries is older than Polish itself, and it still says the same thing it said in Rome: flourishing.

When Florentyna celebrates name day

Florentyna appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 20 June.

Next name day
20 June
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 238 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Florentyna

1 in 13882 women in Poland is named Florentyna. 1,624 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #768 among female names.

People with the name Florentyna 2019 → 2025
1,624 +292 since 2019
2020 1,356 +24
2021 1,377 +21
2022 1,418 +41
2023 1,477 +59
2024 1,535 +58
2025 1,624 +89

Florentyna's popularity over time

140 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #221 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2004.

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140 newborns with the name Florentyna in 2025
national rank #221 that year

Where parents choose Florentyna

Florentyna is most popular in Greater Poland, 60% above the national average (106 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+27%) and Pomeranian (+24%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland, 62% and 44% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +60%
    1 in 2,031 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +27%
    1 in 2,558 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +24%
    1 in 2,631 babies
Chosen least
  • Subcarpathian
    −62%
    1 in 8,612 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −44%
    1 in 5,818 babies
  • Lubusz
    −34%
    1 in 4,966 babies

Florentyna as a middle name

Florentyna is a first name for 1,624 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,546, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 217th, between Maryla (1,548) and Oktawia (1,522).

As a first name
1,624
As a middle name
1,546
first name 51% middle name 49%
Middle-name ranking women

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