Iweta
A Germanic name meaning "yew tree". Fewer than 400 women in Poland carry it and almost none are being born now, so most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Iweta Pronunciation
Iweta is pronounced ee-VE-tah (/iˈvɛta/).
What Iweta means
Where Iweta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iweta grew from Germanic soil. Behind it stands the element *iwa, the yew tree, the same root that gave French Yves and Yvette. The name traveled south and east, and in Czech and Slovak it settled as Iveta, the variant a Polish speaker still meets today.
Yew wood was prized for bows and for the patience of a tree that can live for centuries. The meaning attached to Iweta is drzewo cisowe, the cis, a wood dark and slow to break.
On a Polish class register, Iweta sits near Iwona and Iwo, names that share the same yew. That resemblance is real etymology, since Iwo also traces back to the Germanic *iwa.
Short and firm, Iweta says its origin plainly. The yew is old, and Iweta took its name from that wood.
When Iweta celebrates name day
Iweta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 June.
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 Iweta
1 in 62796 women in Poland is named Iweta. 359 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1584 among female names.
Iweta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Iweta as a middle name
Iweta is a first name for 359 women in Poland and a middle name for another 89, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 708th, between Grazyna (90) and Kay (89).
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#706 Dorothea90
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#707 Grazyna90
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#708 Iweta89
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#709 Kay89
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#710 Klotylda89