Dzina
The name carries the sense of "djinn," a spirit or demon. Fewer than a hundred women in Poland use it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet one.
Dzina Pronunciation
Dzina is pronounced JEE-nah (/ˈd͡ʑina/).
What Dzina means
Where Dzina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dzina is a short name with a long shadow behind it. The meaning recorded for it points to the djinn, the spirit of Arabic lore. The root word is jinn, a being made of smokeless fire in the Quran, where the jinn move unseen among people. English took the same figure and, through the French génie, reached the word genie. The sense of "spirit" or "demon" was fastened to Dzina later, as an association rather than a documented origin.
The Polish ear hears dżin here, the creature of the lamp and the desert wind.
Where Dzina itself comes from is filed plainly as other. That honesty matters. No one has pinned it to a single root. A girl called Dzina on a class register stands out among the Zuzannas and Amelias. Three letters, and done.
What holds is the short meaning behind those letters: dżin, duch, demon.
How many people are named Dzina
1 in 227715 women in Poland is named Dzina. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3472 among female names.
Dzina as a middle name
Dzina is a first name for 99 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4723rd, between Dwojra (3) and Dżemila (3).
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#4721 Dudu3
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#4722 Dwojra3
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#4723 Dzina3
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#4724 Dżemila3
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#4725 Dżuliana3