Pavlyna
Just 145 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Slavic name kept alive by Ukrainian families, built on a root meaning "small, humble".
Pavlyna Pronunciation
What Pavlyna means
Where Pavlyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pavlyna belongs to Ukraine, the feminine of Pavlo, which is how the name Paul sounds there. Follow the root back and it lands on the Latin Paulus, a word that meant small or humble. That sense of modesty was present from the start. Mały, skromny: the meaning sits close to the ground, and the name never asks to be the loudest in the room.
In Poland the same root grows into Paulina and the shorter Paula. From Paulina comes the diminutive Paulinka, and from there Pola, a form clipped down to two bright syllables. Pola can stand on its own now. A child answers to it without anyone reaching for the longer name.
Picture a school register in September. The teacher reads down the list and a Pavlyna answers among the Paulinas, the spelling marking a family with one foot in Ukraine. Her imieniny may fall with Paulina's, on the sixth of June. The name means small and humble, and it wears that meaning lightly.
How many people are named Pavlyna
1 in 155475 women in Poland is named Pavlyna. 145 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2703 among female names.