Krescencja
From the Latin crescere, "to grow," it carries the sense of growing, thriving. Almost no one in Poland uses it now: only about six women hold the name, and no girl has been given it in years.
Krescencja Pronunciation
Krescencja is pronounced kres-TSENTS-yah (/krɛsˈt͡sɛnt͡sja/).
What Krescencja means
Where Krescencja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Krescencja traces back to Latin. Its root is the verb crescere, "to grow," and the present participle crescens gave the noun form Crescentia. That Latin Crescentia is the direct source of the Polish Krescencja. The short meaning follows the root closely: growing, thriving.
The name belonged to real people in the early Church. Saint Crescentia, a martyr honored in Roman tradition alongside Vitus and Modestus, wore the Latin form. Her cult kept the name alive in calendars and litanies long after Latin stopped being a spoken language in daily life.
Read on an official form at the urząd, Krescencja announces its Latin bones at once. It is long, formal, and rare. The name is uncommon now. What stays fixed is its sense: growing, thriving.
When Krescencja celebrates name day
Krescencja appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 April.
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 Krescencja
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Krescencja. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #23251 among female names.
Krescencja as a middle name
Krescencja is a first name for 6 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3016th, between Konkordia (7) and Kristel (7).
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#3014 Khloe7
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#3015 Konkordia7
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#3016 Krescencja7
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#3017 Kristel7
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#3018 Krisztina7