Biruta
Only about 160 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one. Biruta comes from Lithuanian, with the sense "to scatter, to pour out".
Biruta Pronunciation
Biruta is pronounced bee-ROO-tah (/biˈruta/).
What Biruta means
Where Biruta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Biruta comes from Lithuanian. It crossed into Poland from the northeastern lands, where the Lithuanian form Birutė belonged to a real woman. Birutė married Grand Duke Kęstutis in the fourteenth century and became the mother of Vytautas the Great. Hers is among the oldest female names recorded in Lithuanian history.
The meaning given to Biruta is "to scatter, to pour out," rozpraszać and rozlewać in Polish. That reading was attached to the name well after it was first used. A name can outlive the story people later tell about it, and Birutė did.
On a Polish class register, Biruta sits apart from the Katarzynas and Hannas around it. The name is short. It keeps its Lithuanian shape, without a Polish diminutive to soften it. What a bearer holds is the older word behind it, the sense of pouring out.
When Biruta celebrates name day
Biruta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 24 November.
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 Biruta
1 in 141785 women in Poland is named Biruta. 159 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2557 among female names.
Biruta as a middle name
Biruta is a first name for 159 women in Poland and a middle name for another 62, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 863rd, between Antoinette (62) and Elsa (62).
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#863 Biruta62
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