Ivetta
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry it, and no girls were named Ivetta last year: most Poles will never meet one. The name comes from Greek and points to the yew tree.
Ivetta Pronunciation
What Ivetta means
Where Ivetta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ivetta traces back to Greek and points to the yew tree. In Polish the meaning is written drzewo cisowe, the cis. The picture behind the name is one dark, slow evergreen.
The yew lives a long time. It grows slowly. Cis pospolity, the common yew, is a protected species in Poland, and old churchyards still shelter trees counted in centuries. A name tied to that tree borrows something from its patience.
In Poland the name comes in two close spellings. Iweta is what you meet on a school register or a form at the urząd. Iwetta doubles the t and reads as more formal. A girl called Iweta shares her root with the yew that the meaning records.
Ivetta and Iweta keep the same sense, drzewo cisowe.
How many people are named Ivetta
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Ivetta. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4814 among female names.
Ivetta as a middle name
Ivetta is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2777th, between Iva (8) and Iwanna (8).
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#2775 Ingryd8
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#2776 Iva8
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#2777 Ivetta8
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#2778 Iwanna8
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#2779 Jakubina8