Lawinia
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and none were born last year: most Poles have never met a Lawinia. The name is Roman at root, from Lavinium, an old town near Rome, so it means "woman of Lavinium".
Lawinia Pronunciation
Lawinia is pronounced lah-VEE-nyah (/laˈviɲa/).
What Lawinia means
Where Lawinia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lawinia comes from Latin, and it names a place before it names a woman. Lavinium was a town on the coast of Latium, south of Rome, old enough to sit inside Rome's founding stories. The Polish gloss keeps the sense plain: kobieta z Lawinium, a woman of Lavinium.
The first Lavinia we can point to lives in a poem. In Virgil's Aeneid she is the daughter of King Latinus, promised to Aeneas after he lands in Italy. Tradition held that Aeneas founded a town and gave it her name. Roman writers tied the woman and the place so closely that one explains the other.
Polish settled the sound with a w. The bones stay Latin. Read Lawinia on a school class register and the origin still holds: a woman of Lavinium, kobieta z Lawinium.
When Lawinia celebrates name day
Lawinia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 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 Lawinia
1 in 313109 women in Poland is named Lawinia. 72 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4238 among female names.
Lawinia's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Lawinia as a middle name
Lawinia is a first name for 72 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1112th, between Kayla (39) and Liana (39).
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#1110 Ivanna39
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#1111 Kayla39
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#1112 Lawinia39
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#1113 Liana39
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#1114 Lynne39