Takhmina
The name carries the sense "brave, valiant". Only about 40 women in Poland use it, all of them female, so most Poles have never met one.
Takhmina Pronunciation
Takhmina is pronounced tahkkh-MEE-nah (/takxˈmina/).
What Takhmina means
Where Takhmina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Takhmina reaches Polish name registers from outside the Slavic and Christian traditions, which is why its origin is filed simply as other. The root is Persian. In Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the epic finished around 1010, Tahmineh is a princess of Samangan who chooses the hero Rostam and becomes the mother of Sohrab. The name shares its stem with tahm, a Persian word for brave and strong, the same root behind Rostam's epithet Tahamtan. The English gloss of Takhmina, brave and valiant, sits close to the word itself rather than arriving later.
For a Polish speaker the name looks unfamiliar on the page. It has no name-day in the Church calendar and no home-grown diminutive. A teacher reading it from a class register in Białystok meets a name with no Polish anchor and a clear meaning: odważna, dzielna.
Short. Foreign. Hard to shorten.
What stays with Takhmina is that first bearer and that first sense: Tahmineh in the Shahnameh, and behind her the root tahm, brave.
How many people are named Takhmina
1 in 549850 women in Poland is named Takhmina. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6078 among female names.