Jarmila
Just 64 Polish women carry Jarmila, and no girl has been given it in years: meeting one would stick with you. A Slavic name at root, glossed as "fierce grace".
Jarmila Pronunciation
Jarmila is pronounced yahr-MEE-lah (/jarˈmila/).
What Jarmila means
Where Jarmila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jarmila grows from two old Slavic roots. "Jar" holds the sense of spring, heat, and ardour, the same root behind words for vigour and fierce energy. "Mil" means dear and gracious, the softer half of the pair. Read together they give the meaning kept here, fierce grace.
The name never fully softens.
Even its gracious half sits beside a root that means ardent, so the sweetness arrives with force behind it.
The Czech soprano Jarmila Novotná (1907 to 1994) carried it onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, one documented bearer among many. On a Polish class register it stands apart from the Zuzannas and the Julias around it. The two roots stay legible: "jar" for fierce spring, "mil" for grace.
When Jarmila celebrates name day
Jarmila appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 4 February.
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 Jarmila
1 in 352247 women in Poland is named Jarmila. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4571 among female names.
Jarmila as a middle name
Jarmila is a first name for 64 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1452nd, between Harper (24) and Jeannette (24).
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#1450 Francoise24
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#1451 Harper24
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#1452 Jarmila24
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#1453 Jeannette24
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#1454 Jolantyna24