Flávia
Fewer than thirty women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Flávia. A Latin name meaning "golden" or "fair-haired", and no longer given to newborns.
Flávia Pronunciation
What Flávia means
Where Flávia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Flávia comes from Latin. The Roman clan name Flavius gave it its shape, and Flavius grew from the adjective flavus, meaning golden or yellow. So the short meaning is no accident: golden, yellow-haired. A Roman Flavia was, in the plainest reading, a fair-haired girl.
The name is old. The Flavian emperors, Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian, sealed documents with that family name, and any daughter born into the line was simply a Flavia. Centuries later the Church added a Saint Flavia to the calendar, which is how the name kept its footing in the Christian world.
Polish takes the same word and softens the spelling. Where a Latin v once stood, the variant flawia puts a w, the letter a Polish ear expects. Read a class register in a Polish school and Flávia and flawia can sit on the same page, one accent apart. The meaning underneath both stays what it was for the Romans: blond, złota.
How many people are named Flávia
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Flávia. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7642 among female names.