Śnieżka
Fewer than 20 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. The name comes from the Slavic word for snow: something close to "snow-white".
Śnieżka Pronunciation
Śnieżka is pronounced SHNYESH-kah (/ˈɕɲɛʂka/).
What Śnieżka means
Where Śnieżka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Śnieżka grows from the Slavic root śnieg, snow. The short meaning stays close to that root: little snow, snow-white. The name reads as a small, plain description before it becomes anything else.
Polish readers meet the word in another place first. Królewna Śnieżka is how Poland says Snow White, so the Grimm fairy tale sits behind the name for most people who hear it. The image of skin as white as snow came from that story, and Polish borrowed it whole. That literary layer arrived later than the plain snow meaning.
There is a mountain, too. Śnieżka is the highest peak of the Karkonosze, 1603 metres up on the Czech border. A child listed as Śnieżka on a school register shares her name with that summit and with the fairy-tale princess at once.
The variants stay close. Śnieżana and Śnieżanna soften the ending without losing the snow. Each one traces back to śnieg.
How many people are named Śnieżka
1 in 1326108 women in Poland is named Śnieżka. 17 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11338 among female names.
Śnieżka's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Śnieżka as a middle name
Śnieżka is a first name for 17 women in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 34/66 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1225th, between Thao (33) and Anastazia (32).
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#1223 Sinead33
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#1224 Thao33
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#1225 Śnieżka33
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#1226 Anastazia32
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#1227 Atina32