Pratima
Just 21 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. The name means "image" or "likeness", and none has been given to a newborn this century.
Pratima Pronunciation
Pratima is pronounced prah-TEE-mah (/praˈtima/).
What Pratima means
Where Pratima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pratima comes from Sanskrit pratimā, meaning image or likeness. In temple language the word named a statue, the fashioned form of a deity set up for worship. It is built from prati, "toward" or "against," and mā, "to measure." A pratimā is a thing measured against a model, shaped to match it.
That literal sense sits under the name. In Polish it lands as obraz, wizerunek. A woman called Pratima bears the old word for a reflection or a portrait.
The name is rare here. It arrives with families from India, and it keeps its Sanskrit shape without a Polish diminutive or variant. No imieniny marks it in the calendar. What stays is the plain Sanskrit meaning, image, obraz.
How many people are named Pratima
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Pratima. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9701 among female names.