Damiana
The feminine of Damian, from a Latin root that means to tame: a woman who masters what fights back. Most Poles have never met one, and it stays best known in its masculine shape.
Damiana Pronunciation
Damiana is pronounced dahm-YAH-nah (/damˈjana/).
What Damiana means
Where Damiana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Damiana is the feminine of Damian. Both names travel through Latin from a Greek verb meaning to tame or subdue. The short meaning holds onto that action. A tamer. In Polish the idea comes through as `poskromicielka` or `pogromczyni`, someone who masters what fights back.
The name settled most firmly in Italy and Spain. There the masculine Damiano and Damián keep old feast days, tied to Saint Damian, the physician martyred with his brother Cosmas. The two were remembered for treating the sick without charge. Damiana stands beside those forms, the same root worn by a woman.
On a Polish class register, Damiana reads as rare, a name most people meet only in its masculine shape. That rarity works in its favour. Whoever carries it holds a Latin name for someone who tames.
When Damiana celebrates name day
Damiana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 February.
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 Damiana
1 in 126651 women in Poland is named Damiana. 178 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2380 among female names.
Damiana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Damiana as a middle name
Damiana is a first name for 178 women in Poland and a middle name for another 106, a 63/37 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 646th, between Dora (107) and Herta (106).
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#644 Bernadette107
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#645 Dora107
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#646 Damiana106
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#647 Herta106
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#648 Kathleen106