Domicela
A Latin name meaning "lady of the house". Fewer than 600 Polish women carry it today, and no girl has been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Domicela Pronunciation
Domicela is pronounced do-mee-TSE-lah (/dɔmiˈt͡sɛla/).
What Domicela means
Where Domicela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Domicela comes from Latin. Behind it stands domicella, a diminutive of domina, "lady" or "mistress." A domicella was a young woman of the house, and that old sense carries into the name's short meaning: lady of the house, pani domu in Polish.
The root is domus, the house. That single word ties Domicela to its variants, Dominika and the rarer Daminika, names a Polish ear groups together without much effort. On a school class register the resemblance shows plainly, three forms leaning on the same Latin syllable.
Domicela is uncommon in Poland now, more likely to surface on an old parish record than on a birth certificate today. Whoever bears it holds the plainest of Latin meanings: the lady of the house.
When Domicela celebrates name day
Domicela appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 May.
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 Domicela
1 in 37889 women in Poland is named Domicela. 595 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1222 among female names.
Domicela as a middle name
Domicela is a first name for 595 women in Poland and a middle name for another 468, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 321st, between Leontyna (470) and Bernardeta (465).
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#319 Linda474
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#320 Leontyna470
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#321 Domicela468
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#322 Bernardeta465
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#323 Carmen464