Ovsanna
Just 11 women in Poland carry it, and no girls received it last year. Hebrew at root, tied to the cry hosanna: "save us".
Ovsanna Pronunciation
What Ovsanna means
Where Ovsanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ovsanna reaches back to a Hebrew cry. Behind it sits the phrase hoshiʿah-nā, "save, please," the plea recorded in Psalm 118. Greek speakers took it up as hosanna, and the shout kept its shape long after its grammar dissolved into a single word of praise. The short meaning carried today, "save us," holds onto that first request.
The Polish gloss reads daj zbawienie. That sense of deliverance came to the name through liturgy. No root planted it in a person. A word of the crowd became a word for one child.
Ovsanna is rare on a Polish class register. A teacher reading it aloud at the start of term meets a name most of the room has never seen. The meaning stays close to the surface: save us, daj zbawienie, the old plea from Psalm 118.
How many people are named Ovsanna
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Ovsanna. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15379 among female names.