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Afina

A Greek name meaning "wisdom", built from Athena. Almost unknown in Poland until the 2020s, it's climbing now: most Poles have never met one, though more girls received it last year than before.

Afina Pronunciation

Afina is pronounced ah-FEE-nah (/aˈfina/).

Alive in 2025
110
Newborns 2025
13
National rank
#3247

What Afina means

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

Afina is the Russian and Ukrainian rendering of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. In Cyrillic it is written Афина. That spelling brings the old Greek root straight into Slavic speech, and the short meaning attached to it stays plain: wisdom.

Athena came to the Greeks as the patron of strategy and skilled craft, born fully grown from the head of Zeus. The Slavic form kept her wisdom and let the mythology thin out. A child listed as Afina on a Polish class register stands a little apart. The name is rare here, and it points back to a source most of her classmates meet only in old stories.

There are no common diminutives. That absence is part of its character. The wisdom belongs to the goddess first, and Afina is simply Athena spoken in Cyrillic, Афина.

How many people are named Afina

1 in 204944 women in Poland is named Afina. 110 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3247 among female names.

People with the name Afina 2019 → 2025
110 +102 since 2019
2020 9 +1
2021 18 +9
2022 33 +15
2023 78 +45
2024 96 +18
2025 110 +14

Afina's popularity over time

13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #625 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019.

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13 newborns with the name Afina in 2025
national rank #625 that year

Where parents choose Afina

Afina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 257% above the national average (7 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+194%) and Lesser Poland (+6%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 30% and 26% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +257%
    1 in 22,448 babies
  • Masovian
    +194%
    1 in 27,251 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +6%
    1 in 75,639 babies
Chosen least
  • Silesian
    −30%
    1 in 113,792 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −26%
    1 in 107,622 babies

Afina as a middle name

Afina is a first name for 110 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4528th, between Aditi (3) and Agnessa (3).

As a first name
110
As a middle name
3
first name 97% middle name 3%
Middle-name ranking women

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