Dąbrówka
It comes from dąbrowa, an oak grove: a girl named for a stand of trees rather than a virtue. Most Poles have never met one, and it stays rare, given to only a handful of girls each year.
Dąbrówka Pronunciation
Dąbrówka is pronounced donb-ROOF-kah (/dɔ̃bˈrufka/).
What Dąbrówka means
Where Dąbrówka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dąbrówka grows from the Polish word dąbrowa, an oak grove, and that is where its meaning sits: from the oak grove. The root is Slavic, shared with dąb, the oak that stands in place names all over the country. A girl called Dąbrówka is named after a stand of trees rather than a virtue.
The name also belongs to history. Dobrawa, the Bohemian princess who married Mieszko I and is tied to the baptism of Poland in 966, appears in Polish tradition under the form Dąbrówka, the spelling the chronicler Gall Anonim used. Over the centuries Dobrawa and Dąbrówka drifted together, and later readers linked the oak-grove name to that early Christian figure.
Today it is rare. On a Polish school register you might find one Dąbrówka among the Zuzannas and Lenas. The variant Dobrawa is the form parents reach for more often, shorter and softer. The name still points back to the same ground: a grove of oaks.
How many people are named Dąbrówka
1 in 119280 women in Poland is named Dąbrówka. 189 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2302 among female names.
Dąbrówka's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1032 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where Dąbrówka is most popular
Dąbrówka is most popular in Lower Silesian, 489% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+187%) and Lesser Poland (+172%).
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+489%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+187%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+172%
Dąbrówka as a middle name
Dąbrówka is a first name for 189 women in Poland and a middle name for another 159, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 527th, between Doris (159) and Melissa (158).
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#525 Helene162
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#526 Doris159
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#527 Dąbrówka159
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#528 Melissa158
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#529 Eve156