Ginewra
The Polish spelling of the Arthurian queen, from Welsh Gwenhwyfar: gwen for "white" plus a root read as "phantom". Almost no one in Poland carries it, just four women in all.
Ginewra Pronunciation
Ginewra is pronounced gee-NEV-rah (/giˈnɛvra/).
What Ginewra means
Where Ginewra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ginewra reaches back to a Celtic source, the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar. Its first part, gwen, means "white" or "fair." The second part has been read as "phantom" or "smooth one," and that reading is where the short meaning comes from: white phantom.
The name traveled far from Wales. English shaped it into Guinevere, the queen at Arthur's side in the Round Table stories. Italian softened the same root into Ginevra. Ginewra is the Polish spelling of that figure.
A white phantom is a strange thing to name a child. Read it less as a ghost and more as a pale, half-seen brightness. That is the image the Welsh root holds.
On a Polish class register, Ginewra stands out among the Zuzannas and Amelias. It has no name-day of its own and no ready diminutive, so it stays whole on the form at the urząd. The meaning stays too: biały duch, white phantom.
When Ginewra celebrates name day
Ginewra appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 November.
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 Ginewra
1 in 5635958 women in Poland is named Ginewra. 4 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #30031 among female names.
Ginewra as a middle name
Ginewra is a first name for 4 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5921st, between Gilberta (2) and Giri (2).
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#5919 Gienia2
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#5920 Gilberta2
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#5921 Ginewra2
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#5922 Giri2
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#5923 Glenda2