Nawoja
A Slavic name meaning "best warrior". Just 31 women in Poland carry it, and it's fading further: the small run of births through 2023 has since dried up, so most Poles have never met one.
Nawoja Pronunciation
Nawoja is pronounced nah-VO-yah (/naˈvɔja/).
What Nawoja means
Where Nawoja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nawoja is an Old Polish name, Slavic in origin. It belongs to the family of two-part Slavic names built around woj, the element for battle and the fighter, the same root that stands inside Wojciech and the ordinary word wojownik. Read that way, Nawoja means best warrior.
A second sense grew up around the sound of the name. Polish ears hear nawoływać in it, the verb for calling out. From there Nawoja reads as ta, która nawołuje, the one who calls. That reading came later. It sits on top of the warrior root rather than under it.
The name keeps a fixed day. Nawoja celebrates her imieniny on 12 May. Fewer than three dozen women carried it in Poland in 2024, so a class register with a Nawoja on it is a rare page. Look for the warrior root woj first, and the calling second.
When Nawoja celebrates name day
Nawoja appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 May.
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 Nawoja
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Nawoja. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7346 among female names.
Nawoja's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Nawoja is most popular
Nawoja is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+852%
Nawoja as a middle name
Nawoja is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2021st, between Nadiia (14) and Nisa (14).
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#2019 Mimi14
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#2020 Nadiia14
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#2021 Nawoja14
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#2022 Nisa14
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#2023 Noela14