Bonifacja
Fewer than 20 Polish women carry it, so meeting one would be a story you'd tell. It's the feminine of Bonifacy, from the Latin for "good fate", and no girl has been given it in a quarter century.
Bonifacja Pronunciation
Bonifacja is pronounced bo-nyee-FAHTS-yah (/bɔɲiˈfat͡sja/).
What Bonifacja means
Where Bonifacja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bonifacja begins in Latin. The oldest form is Bonifatius, made from bonum fatum, good fate. Polish keeps that meaning plainly: dobry los.
Later readers heard the name as Bonifacius, from bonum facere, to do good. Saint Boniface, the eighth-century missionary to the Germans, set that spelling in the church calendar. Boniface came to mean the one whose work is good, and the sense was attached once the older fatum had blurred.
One name now holds two Latin readings.
The masculine form is Bonifacy, and Bonifacja is its feminine counterpart. Neither is common now. In a school register the name would stand out, four syllables read slowly while the class waits. What holds underneath both spellings is the first sense, good fate, dobry los.
When Bonifacja celebrates name day
Bonifacja appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 8 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 Bonifacja
1 in 1186518 women in Poland is named Bonifacja. 19 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10188 among female names.
Bonifacja as a middle name
Bonifacja is a first name for 19 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1657th, between Birgitta (19) and Céline (19).
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#1655 Bela19
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#1656 Birgitta19
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#1657 Bonifacja19
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#1658 Céline19
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#1659 Darina19