Funda
A Turkish name that means "heather", the low flowering shrub. In Poland it barely registers: only about 30 women carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Funda Pronunciation
Funda is pronounced FOON-dah (/ˈfunda/).
What Funda means
Where Funda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Funda is a Turkish name for heather, the low shrub botanists place in the genus Erica. Its origin lies outside Slavic and Latin naming, in an ordinary Turkish word for a plant that spreads across the hills of Anatolia. The meaning is plain: heather, wrzos, with nothing hidden behind it.
Turkish families have given the name to girls since the twentieth century, among other names drawn from plants. In Polish it brings no diminutive and no variant, so it keeps a single form. The origin is foreign.
On a Polish form at the urząd, a clerk might read Funda twice before writing it down, five letters that give no clue to their source. What the letters hold is clear enough. A Turkish word, and behind it a field of heather.
How many people are named Funda
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Funda. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7132 among female names.
Funda as a middle name
Funda is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5901st, between Fruzsina (2) and Gabriëlla (2).
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#5899 Freia2
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#5900 Fruzsina2
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#5901 Funda2
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#5902 Gabriëlla2
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#5903 Gai2