Remigia
Only 41 Polish women carry it, so most people will never meet one. It's the feminine partner to Remigiusz, from a Latin root meaning "oarsman".
Remigia Pronunciation
Remigia is pronounced re-MEEG-yah (/rɛˈmigja/).
What Remigia means
Where Remigia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Remigia comes from Latin. Its root is remex, remigis, the word for an oarsman, and behind that sits remus, an oar. The short meaning stays close to that labor: oarsman, rower. In Polish the sense runs to wytwórca wioseł, a maker of oars, someone bound to the tool that moves a boat.
The masculine variant is Remigiusz, borne by Saint Remigius, the bishop of Reims who baptized Clovis around 496. His name day falls on the first of October. Remigia stands beside him as the feminine form, rarer and older-sounding to a Polish ear.
Remigia is rare in Poland now. A girl with the name might find it alone on a class register, the only one among the Zuzannas and Julias. The name still points where it always did, to the oar and the rower who pulls it.
When Remigia celebrates name day
Remigia appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 13 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Remigia
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Remigia. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6065 among female names.
Remigia as a middle name
Remigia is a first name for 41 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1858th, between Rahel (16) and Roisin (16).
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#1856 Quynh16
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#1857 Rahel16
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#1858 Remigia16
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#1859 Roisin16
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#1860 Romania16