Marzenna
A Slavic name built on the word for "dream" (Polish *marzenie*). Around 7,000 women carry it, but it's slipped out of use: no girls have been given it in years, so every Marzenna you meet grew up decades ago.
Marzenna Pronunciation
Marzenna is pronounced mah-ZHEN-nah (/maˈʐɛnna/).
What Marzenna means
Where Marzenna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Marzenna grows from Slavic roots, and its meaning stays near the surface: the Polish word marzenie, a dream. The name shares that root with the ordinary verb marzyć, to daydream, so a Polish speaker catches the sense without effort. Its shorter twin Marzena turns up on more birth records, while Marzenka bends the same word into something used at home.
The doubled n gives Marzenna a fuller, more old-fashioned look. A teacher reading a class register might slow down on that spelling before reaching the plainer one.
A dream can be a wish or a thing half-seen while awake, and Polish holds both senses in one word. Marzenna carries that word as a name. Call the name aloud and you have said marzenie, a dream.
How many people are named Marzenna
1 in 3112 women in Poland is named Marzenna. 7,244 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #418 among female names.
Marzenna as a middle name
Marzenna is a first name for 7,244 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,581, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 214th, between Bolesława (1,584) and Leonarda (1,564).
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212
1,602Vanessa
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213
1,584Bolesława
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2141,581Marzenna
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215
1,564Leonarda
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216
1,548Maryla