Ginevra
Celtic at root, with a striking sense: "fair one", or read literally, "white phantom". It stays vanishingly rare in Poland, carried by just over 40 women, so most Poles have never met one.
Ginevra Pronunciation
What Ginevra means
Where Ginevra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ginevra reaches back to Celtic sources, kin to the Welsh Gwenhwyfar. The old pieces of that name point toward "white" and "phantom," and the English reading "white phantom" keeps both. Italian speakers took it up centuries ago, and it settled there as an Italian name.
One bearer is easy to check. Ginevra de' Benci sat for Leonardo da Vinci around 1474, and her portrait now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The name shows up in literature too, given to a wronged princess in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.
The softer gloss "fair one" came later, once "white" drifted toward beauty rather than colour. Both readings still travel with it. On a Polish class register the name stands out among the Zosias and Julias. What stays fixed under every reading is the Celtic root and its sense of white.
How many people are named Ginevra
1 in 524275 women in Poland is named Ginevra. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5854 among female names.
Ginevra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ginevra as a middle name
Ginevra is a first name for 43 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3610th, between Ginette (5) and Gisell (5).
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#3608 Ghislaine5
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#3609 Ginette5
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#3610 Ginevra5
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#3611 Gisell5
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#3612 Gisselle5