Laurencja
A Latin name meaning laurel, the leaf Romans handed to victors and poets. It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 300 women carry it, so most Poles have never met one, while the shorter Laura took the crowd.
Laurencja Pronunciation
Laurencja is pronounced lah-oo-RENTS-yah (/lauˈrɛnt͡sja/).
What Laurencja means
Where Laurencja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Laurencja comes from Latin, the feminine form of Laurentius. That name traces to Laurentum, a town in old Latium, and the Romans tied it to the laurel, laurus. The leaf meant victory and honour. Its Polish sense is laur, wawrzyn.
The variant is Laura. Shorter and quicker to say, it has long overshadowed the fuller Laurencja on class registers and official forms, yet both draw on the same root. A child signing Laurencja at the urząd writes out the whole laurel where Laura keeps only the bud.
The male line runs through Laurentius, the Roman deacon and martyr better known in Poland as Wawrzyniec, whose feast falls on 10 August. Laurencja stands as the woman's answer to that name. What it hands its bearer is plain enough: the laurel of Laurentum, and the Polish laur and wawrzyn.
When Laurencja celebrates name day
Laurencja appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 8 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Laurencja
1 in 89106 women in Poland is named Laurencja. 253 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1929 among female names.
Laurencja's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1657 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Laurencja as a middle name
Laurencja is a first name for 253 women in Poland and a middle name for another 131, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 572nd, between Nikoletta (132) and Andżelina (130).
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#570 Yvonne133
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#571 Nikoletta132
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#572 Laurencja131
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#573 Andżelina130
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#574 Camila130