Grazyna
A Lithuanian name, from a root meaning "lovely". It's fading fast: no newborn girls have taken it so far this century, and it stays entirely a woman's name that most Poles have never met.
Grazyna Pronunciation
Grazyna is pronounced grah-ZIH-nah (/graˈzɨna/).
What Grazyna means
Where Grazyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Grażyna entered Polish through a poem. Adam Mickiewicz built the name for his 1823 narrative poem Grażyna, drawing on the Lithuanian word gražus, beautiful. In Polish the short meaning stays close to that root: piękna, beautiful. Few names can name their author.
The heroine of the poem is a duchess who puts on her husband's armor and rides to battle. That made the name mean more than the adjective behind it. A reader met Grażyna first as courage, then as beauty.
For much of the twentieth century the name was common in Poland. Open a school register from the 1960s and several Grażynas answer. It has no standard diminutive and no cross-gender pair, so it stands on its own, unshortened.
The origin holds in one word: gražus, Lithuanian for beautiful.
How many people are named Grazyna
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Grazyna. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4753 among female names.
Grazyna as a middle name
Grazyna is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 90, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 707th, between Dorothea (90) and Iweta (89).
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#705 Dina90
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#706 Dorothea90
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#707 Grazyna90
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#708 Iweta89
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#709 Kay89