Rasa
Fewer than fifty women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it in years: a name most Poles will never meet. It comes from Latin, where the root means "dew".
Rasa Pronunciation
Rasa is pronounced RAH-sah (/ˈrasa/).
What Rasa means
Where Rasa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rasa comes from Latin, from the word for dew: ros, in the genitive roris. The same root gives Polish rosa, the water that settles on grass before the sun climbs. So the name and an ordinary morning word share one ancestor.
The literal sense is dew. It stays small and physical, a droplet rather than a grand idea. The sense of freshness that people attach to the name came later, drawn from what dew does to a field at dawn.
On an imieniny card or a school register, Rasa reads as short and complete. Two syllables, no diminutive tradition in Polish, no variant to soften or lengthen it. A clerk at the urząd writes it once and the form is done.
What the name gives its bearer is the plainest of images: rosa on grass, the Latin ros behind it.
How many people are named Rasa
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Rasa. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5568 among female names.
Rasa as a middle name
Rasa is a first name for 47 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6615th, between Raphaëlle (2) and Rayana (2).
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#6613 Ranjani2
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#6614 Raphaëlle2
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#6615 Rasa2
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#6616 Rayana2
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#6617 Razan2