Benigna
Just 357 women in Poland carry it, few enough that most people have never met one, and no girl has been given it in years. From Latin, where it meant kind and well-born.
Benigna Pronunciation
Benigna is pronounced be-NYEEG-nah (/bɛˈɲigna/).
What Benigna means
Where Benigna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Benigna comes from the Latin benignus, a word the Romans used for a person who was generous and good-natured. It joins bene, meaning well, to a root that carries both birth and kindness. So the name arrives already glossed. In English it settles as kind, well-born; in Polish as życzliwa, dobroduszna.
The same benignus gave English the adjective benign, which makes Benigna a close cousin of a word most readers know. There are no diminutives trailing behind her and no male twin, so the name stands on its own, uncut and unshortened.
On her imieniny a Benigna often finds her name set among rarer entries in the calendar, easy to miss on a class register. The rarity suits a meaning that asks for little. Kindness here is not decoration. The Latin still reads clearly under the Polish: benignus, well-born and well-meaning.
When Benigna celebrates name day
Benigna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 June.
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 Benigna
1 in 63148 women in Poland is named Benigna. 357 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1588 among female names.
Benigna as a middle name
Benigna is a first name for 357 women in Poland and a middle name for another 226, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 447th, between Mae (227) and Majka (226).
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#445 Ana231
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#446 Mae227
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#447 Benigna226
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#448 Majka226
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#449 Miranda226