Nargiza
Only 85 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Hebrew name meaning narcissus or daffodil, the spring flower.
Nargiza Pronunciation
Nargiza is pronounced nahr-GEE-zah (/narˈgiza/).
What Nargiza means
Where Nargiza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nargiza names a flower. Its recorded meaning is the narcissus, the daffodil that Polish speakers call narcyz or żonkil. That is a bright, early bloom, and it stands at the front of the name before any other reading.
The origin here is marked as Hebrew. Nargiza reached Polish registers from far outside the usual Slavic stock, and the daffodil sense arrived with it. A child called Nargiza wears the flower meaning first.
Picture the name read from a class register on the first day of school. It sits among the Zuzannas and Amelias, longer and less familiar, and it holds its ground. The daffodil does not fade because the surrounding names are more common.
No name-day in the Polish calendar is fixed to Nargiza, so an imieniny would be chosen rather than inherited. What stays constant is the meaning underneath: narcissus, the żonkil that opens while the ground is still cold.
How many people are named Nargiza
1 in 265222 women in Poland is named Nargiza. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3835 among female names.