Augustyna
The feminine form of Augustyn, from Latin: majestic and venerable. Only about 500 Polish women carry it, and it's given so rarely that most Poles have never met one.
Augustyna Pronunciation
Augustyna is pronounced ah-oo-goos-TIH-nah (/augusˈtɨna/).
What Augustyna means
Where Augustyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Augustyna comes from Latin. Its root is the adjective augustus, which meant venerable, majestic, worthy of reverence. Rome gave the word to its rulers. From the same root grew the masculine Augustyn, and Augustyna is its feminine companion.
In Polish the name is sometimes glossed as szczęśliwa, fortunate. That sense was attached later, drawn from the grandeur people heard in the word august. It is a warmer reading than the emperors ever needed. The older meaning, majestic, stayed underneath.
Read a class register in a Polish school and Augustyna stands out, longer and more formal than a Maja or a Zuzia beside it. Her imieniny fall near Augustyn's, the two names held together by one Latin root that once meant venerable.
When Augustyna celebrates name day
Augustyna appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 October.
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 Augustyna
1 in 43945 women in Poland is named Augustyna. 513 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1302 among female names.
Augustyna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Augustyna as a middle name
Augustyna is a first name for 513 women in Poland and a middle name for another 747, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 272nd, between Gloria (764) and Bernardyna (744).
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#270 Dobrosława764
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#271 Gloria764
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#272 Augustyna747
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#273 Bernardyna744
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#274 Amalia743