Dobrawa
A Slavic name that means "good, kind": at root, a good-hearted woman. Fewer than 800 Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Dobrawa Pronunciation
Dobrawa is pronounced dob-RAH-vah (/dɔbˈrava/).
What Dobrawa means
Where Dobrawa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dobrawa comes from the Slavic adjective dobry, good. The name reads as a small description of a person: a good, kind woman. Its variant, Dąbrówka, sits close enough that Polish chroniclers used the two almost interchangeably.
History gives the name an early bearer. Dobrawa of Bohemia, a Přemyslid princess, came to Poland around 965 and married the pagan duke Mieszko I. Chronicles often name her Dąbrówka. Her arrival is tied to the baptism of Mieszko in 966, the moment usually marked as the start of Christian Poland.
On a modern class register the name is rare, and a teacher may pause over it. The meaning stays legible all the same. Dobrawa promises kindness. The root dobr- does the whole work, and the sense of good, kind holds from the tenth century to now.
When Dobrawa celebrates name day
Dobrawa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 January.
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 Dobrawa
1 in 29014 women in Poland is named Dobrawa. 777 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1063 among female names.
Dobrawa's popularity over time
27 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #456 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Dobrawa is most popular
Dobrawa is most popular in Silesian, 70% above the national average (32 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+64%) and Greater Poland (+57%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Łódź, 80% and 62% below average respectively.
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Silesian32 girls born+70%
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Pomeranian20 girls born+64%
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Greater Poland28 girls born+57%
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West Pomeranian9 girls born+29%
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Lesser Poland23 girls born+22%
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Świętokrzyskie5 girls born+9%
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Lower Silesian14 girls born+8%
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Masovian30 girls born+2%
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Lublin6 girls born−29%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born−34%
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Łódź4 girls born−62%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−80%
Dobrawa as a middle name
Dobrawa is a first name for 777 women in Poland and a middle name for another 364, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 358th, between Irene (365) and Katharina (363).
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#356 Hanka365
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#357 Irene365
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#358 Dobrawa364
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#359 Katharina363
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#360 Fatima357