Patricija
A rare spelling of Patrycja: only about 15 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn girls have taken it this century. From Latin, where it marked someone noble, high-born.
Patricija Pronunciation
Patricija is pronounced paht-ree-CHEE-yah (/patriˈt͡ɕija/).
What Patricija means
Where Patricija comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Patricija comes from Latin. Behind it stands patricius, the word Rome used for its patrician class, the old families who claimed descent from the founding fathers, the patres. From that root the name took its meaning: noble, well-born. Polish renders it szlachetnie urodzona, a woman of high birth.
The spelling most of Poland knows is Patrycja. Patricija sits beside it, a form closer to Lithuanian and Latvian registers, though the root is the same. The masculine relative is Patryk, and he carries the identical Roman ancestry.
Patrycja was a common name for girls born in Poland during the 1980s and 1990s. Read a class register from those years and the name recurs, sometimes two or three girls to a room. The Latin sense has drifted far from Roman rank by now. A girl called Patricija today owes nothing to any senate. What stays is the plain meaning under the spelling: noble, patrician, szlachetnie urodzona.
How many people are named Patricija
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Patricija. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12230 among female names.