Jurata
Only 47 Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given the name in the records since 2000: most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Lithuanian, where the root means "sea".
Jurata Pronunciation
Jurata is pronounced yoo-RAH-tah (/juˈrata/).
What Jurata means
Where Jurata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jurata comes from Lithuanian, from the root jūra, meaning sea. Its short meaning is exactly that: morze. The Latvian jūra stands right beside it, the same word in a neighbour tongue.
Baltic legend gives the sea a ruler named Jūratė, an amber queen in a palace under the water. She shares Jurata's root. She loved a mortal fisherman, Kastytis, and the thunder god Perkūnas shattered her amber palace. Fishermen along the coast told her story long before anyone printed it.
There is a real Jurata on the map. It is a district of Jastarnia on the Hel Peninsula, laid out as a seaside resort in the late 1920s and named for that queen. Read a class register in a school there and the name points straight at the water outside. Jurata means the sea.
How many people are named Jurata
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Jurata. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5544 among female names.
Jurata as a middle name
Jurata is a first name for 47 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1457th, between Juana (24) and Karmela (24).
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#1455 Jolita24
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#1456 Juana24
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#1457 Jurata24
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#1458 Karmela24
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#1459 Katalin24