Bibianna
From the Latin for "lively" or "alive", a variant of Bibiana. Fewer than 350 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Bibianna Pronunciation
Bibianna is pronounced beeb-YAHN-nah (/bibˈjanna/).
What Bibianna means
Where Bibianna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bibianna comes from Latin, from the family of vivus, meaning alive. Its short meaning stays close to that root: lively, żywa, full of movement. The variant Bibiana carries the same sense with a lighter spelling, and both forms have travelled alongside each other for a long time.
There was a real Bibiana. Rome remembers a martyr named Santa Bibiana, and a small basilica near the Termini district still bears her name. Her feast day is the second of December. That date settled into the calendar as the name-day for anyone called Bibianna or Bibiana.
On a Polish class register the name looks unusual now, rarer than it once was. Read it back to its Latin start and the meaning is plain: alive and lively.
When Bibianna celebrates name day
Bibianna appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 December.
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 Bibianna
1 in 67903 women in Poland is named Bibianna. 332 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1661 among female names.
Bibianna's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1210 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Bibianna is most popular
Bibianna is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+904%
Bibianna as a middle name
Bibianna is a first name for 332 women in Poland and a middle name for another 177, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 508th, between Rachela (178) and Karen (177).
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#506 Edith178
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#507 Rachela178
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#508 Bibianna177
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#509 Karen177
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#510 Lucy177