Saturnina
Fewer than 130 women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it in a quarter century: most Poles will never meet a Saturnina. From Latin, it means "belonging to Saturn".
Saturnina Pronunciation
Saturnina is pronounced sah-toor-NYEE-nah (/saturˈɲina/).
What Saturnina means
Where Saturnina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Saturnina begins in Latin. It is the feminine of Saturninus, and the name means belonging to Saturn, the old Roman god of sowing and the harvest. The name points back to a deity long before it belonged to any person.
The Spanish thread runs through a saint. Saturninus of Toulouse, a third-century martyr, is remembered there as San Saturnino, patron of Pamplona, with a feast on 29 November. Girls named Saturnina inherited that same root, and across Spanish parishes the name traveled beside its masculine forms.
Its closest relative in Polish is the variant Saturnin, a men's name with its own imieniny. Saturnina keeps the identical Latin bones and turns them toward a daughter. Picture the name written out in full on an official form at the urząd, long and formal on the page. The meaning stays literal: belonging to Saturn.
When Saturnina celebrates name day
Saturnina appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 February.
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 Saturnina
1 in 184786 women in Poland is named Saturnina. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3046 among female names.
Saturnina as a middle name
Saturnina is a first name for 122 women in Poland and a middle name for another 94, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 691st, between Nadine (94) and Stefanie (94).
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#689 Megan94
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#690 Nadine94
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#691 Saturnina94
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#692 Stefanie94
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#693 Kamilia93