Emerencja
Just two women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been named Emerencja this century. A Latin name meaning "deserving" or "meritorious", now almost gone.
Emerencja Pronunciation
Emerencja is pronounced e-me-RENTS-yah (/ɛmɛˈrɛnt͡sja/).
What Emerencja means
Where Emerencja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Emerencja comes from the Latin verb `ēmerēre`, to earn or fully deserve. The Romans used it for service completed and merit won, and the name settled into a plain meaning: deserving, meritorious. In Polish that reads as dobrze zasłużona.
The same root sits inside a word people still use. An emeritus professor is one who has served a full term. To the Romans, an emeritus was a soldier discharged with honour after his years were done. Emerencja belongs to that family, and the merit in it is merit that someone earned.
There is a patron behind the name. Saint Emerentiana, a Roman girl, was stoned around the year 304 while praying at the grave of Agnes, her foster sister. Her feast fell on 23 January, and that is the date beside Emerencja in a Polish name-day calendar. Read from a school register today, the name still says what the Latin said: deserving.
When Emerencja celebrates name day
Emerencja appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 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 Emerencja
1 in 11271917 women in Poland is named Emerencja. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #48922 among female names.
Emerencja as a middle name
Emerencja is a first name for 2 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5818th, between Emeline (2) and Emilija (2).
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#5816 Emam2
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#5817 Emeline2
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#5818 Emerencja2
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#5819 Emilija2
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#5820 Emillia2