Skip to main content

Marysia

A pet form of Maria that Polish parents now register on its own, from a Hebrew name meaning loved. It stays rare: only about 145 women carry it, and just a few girls receive it each year.

Marysia Pronunciation

Marysia is pronounced mah-RIH-shah (/maˈrɨɕa/).

Alive in 2025
145
Newborns 2025
3
National rank
#2701

What Marysia means

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

Marysia begins in Hebrew, in the name Miryam that Polish absorbed as Maria. It is a diminutive, the sound of Maria spoken with affection at home. The meaning recorded for it is beloved, a reading carried over from Maria rather than dug from the Hebrew root.

Across the eastern border the same source yields Marichka, the Ukrainian form built on that Hebrew name. Mania is the plainer diminutive, closer and blunter, the one a grandmother reaches for. Maria stays the formal anchor. On documents she is Maria, among family she is Marysia.

On a school register the full Maria stands in the column, and the class answers to Marysia. Her name-day follows Maria's, and the Polish calendar offers several across the year. The sense kept for her is beloved.

How many people are named Marysia

1 in 155475 women in Poland is named Marysia. 145 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2701 among female names.

People with the name Marysia 2019 → 2025
145 +63 since 2019
2020 87 +5
2021 102 +15
2022 113 +11
2023 126 +13
2024 135 +9
2025 145 +10

Marysia's popularity over time

3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1293 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

hover a bar to explore
3 newborns with the name Marysia in 2025
national rank #1293 that year

Where parents choose Marysia

Marysia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 327% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+229%) and Silesian (+217%).

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +327%
    1 in 42,213 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +229%
    1 in 54,690 babies
  • Silesian
    +217%
    1 in 56,896 babies

Marysia as a middle name

Marysia is a first name for 145 women in Poland and a middle name for another 89, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 711th, between Klotylda (89) and Kaya (88).

As a first name
145
As a middle name
89
first name 62% middle name 38%
Middle-name ranking women

Look up another name

Search the register, or step through the ranking one place at a time.

Next in ranking → Meryem #2702