Kryspina
From the Latin crispus, "curly-haired": the same root behind the English word "crisp". Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Kryspina Pronunciation
Kryspina is pronounced krihs-PEE-nah (/krɨsˈpina/).
What Kryspina means
Where Kryspina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kryspina descends from the Latin crispus, meaning curly-haired. Roman families used the word as a nickname for someone with tight curls, and it hardened into the cognomen Crispinus. Kryspina is the feminine form. Its masculine pair, Kryspin, still turns up in Polish name-day calendars.
The name reached Poland through the Church. Saint Crispina of Thagora, a North African woman, was martyred in 304, and her name traveled with the Latin liturgy. So the plain sense of "curly-haired" sits under a story of early Christian resolve.
Kryspina is rare now. On a Polish class register it would stand apart from the Zuzannas and Julias. The description never lost its literal edge. Crispus is the same root behind English "crisp," and it still points to hair that curls.
When Kryspina celebrates name day
Kryspina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 5 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Kryspina
1 in 134993 women in Poland is named Kryspina. 167 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2487 among female names.
Kryspina as a middle name
Kryspina is a first name for 167 women in Poland and a middle name for another 117, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 609th, between Kordula (117) and Ania (116).
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#607 Camille117
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#608 Kordula117
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#609 Kryspina117
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#610 Ania116
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#611 Świętosława116