Patrycja
Nearly 170,000 Polish women carry it, yet hardly anyone gives it now: just 125 newborn girls last year. At root it's Latin for "noble" or "high-born".
Patrycja Pronunciation
Patrycja is pronounced paht-RIHTS-yah (/patˈrɨt͡sja/).
What Patrycja means
Where Patrycja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Patrycja comes from the Latin patricius, the word Rome used for its patrician class. Those were the families who traced their line back to the early senators, the patres, the fathers of the city. So the short meaning is a plain inheritance from that world: noble, high-born, or in Polish szlachetnie urodzona.
The masculine form is Patryk, built on the same root. In English and Italian the name settles as Patricia, the variant a Polish Patrycja meets on any foreign form. One documented bearer was Patricia of Naples, a seventh-century woman later counted among the co-patrons of the city; her relics are still kept there, at San Gregorio Armeno, where her dried blood is said to liquefy every Tuesday.
The meaning is old and plain. Read a Polish class register and the name sits without fuss, a Patrycja between a Paulina and a Weronika. The Roman patres are long gone, but the sense holds: szlachetnie urodzona, noble by birth.
How many people are named Patrycja
1 in 133 women in Poland is named Patrycja. 169,480 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #86 among female names.
Patrycja's popularity over time
125 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #229 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #86 name among living women, even as it slips to #229 among newborns.
Where Patrycja is most popular
Patrycja is most popular in Podlaskie, 78% above the national average (117 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+46%) and Lublin (+19%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Opole, 38% and 26% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie117 girls born+78%
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Lesser Poland332 girls born+46%
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Lublin122 girls born+19%
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Subcarpathian137 girls born+14%
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Świętokrzyskie63 girls born+14%
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Warmian-Masurian79 girls born+10%
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Masovian365 girls born+3%
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Łódź121 girls born−5%
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Silesian214 girls born−6%
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Lubusz43 girls born−13%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian91 girls born−17%
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Greater Poland168 girls born−22%
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West Pomeranian66 girls born−22%
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Pomeranian112 girls born−24%
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Opole34 girls born−26%
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Lower Silesian98 girls born−38%
Patrycja as a middle name
Patrycja is a first name for 169,480 women in Poland and a middle name for another 62,344, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 45th, between Paulina (68,786) and Kinga (59,349).
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43
73,048Sylwia
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44
68,786Paulina
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4562,344Patrycja
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46
59,349Kinga
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47
58,366Renata
When Patrycja celebrates name day
Patrycja appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 13 March.