Asteria
Greek at root, from a word meaning "of the stars": starry. Barely two dozen women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one and the few births have all but stopped.
Asteria Pronunciation
Asteria is pronounced ahs-TER-yah (/asˈtɛrja/).
What Asteria means
Where Asteria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Asteria begins with the Greek word aster, meaning star. The name itself means of the stars, or starry. Here the meaning is literal, present from the start. The same root gives us the aster flower, the asterisk, and the word astronomy.
In Greek myth, Asteria was a Titaness, a daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. Her sister was Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis. Ancient writers linked her to falling stars and to oracles read by night. Fleeing Zeus, she turned into a quail, then into the island later known as Delos.
It is rare. On a Polish class register, Asteria sits oddly beside Zofia and Maria. The name has no Polish diminutive in common use, so it stays whole: Asteria, the starry one.
When Asteria celebrates name day
Asteria appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 August.
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 Asteria
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Asteria. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9246 among female names.
Asteria's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Asteria is most popular
Asteria is most popular in Silesian, 850% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Silesian2 girls born+850%
Asteria as a middle name
Asteria is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1754th, between Artemis (17) and Buse (17).
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#1752 Artemida17
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#1753 Artemis17
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#1754 Asteria17
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#1755 Buse17
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#1756 Büşra17