Śnieżana
Barely a name in Poland at all: only 16 women carry it, and no girls have been given it this century. It comes from the Slavic word for snow, śnieg, roughly "snow maiden".
Śnieżana Pronunciation
Śnieżana is pronounced shnye-ZHAH-nah (/ɕɲɛˈʐana/).
What Śnieżana means
Where Śnieżana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Śnieżana grows from a single Slavic root, śnieg, the word for snow. The name means snowy, and in its fuller sense the snow maiden. That root runs across the Slavic languages, from Polish śnieg to Russian sneg, so the name reads clearly for speakers far from Poland.
The diminutive śnieżka softens it for a small child. There is also the longer variant śnieżanna, and the doubled n gives it more weight on a form at the urząd. Read on a class register, śnieżana stands out among the Zuzannas and Julias.
The snow-maiden sense came through folklore rather than the bare etymology. Slavic tales keep a figure of a girl made of snow, and the name took on her image later. The origin stays plain. It is snow.
How many people are named Śnieżana
1 in 1408990 women in Poland is named Śnieżana. 16 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11861 among female names.