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Telimena

From the Greek for "lover of song". Only about a hundred Polish women carry it, so most people here have never met one, though a handful of newborns lately suggests it's edging into use.

Telimena Pronunciation

Telimena is pronounced te-lee-ME-nah (/tɛliˈmɛna/).

Alive in 2025
103
Newborns 2025
3
National rank
#3387
Next name day
3 February
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What Telimena means

Where Telimena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Telimena reached Polish readers through a book. Adam Mickiewicz gave the name to a worldly, coquettish woman in Pan Tadeusz, his 1834 epic set in the Lithuanian countryside. Before that book the name was rare in Poland. After it, Telimena belonged to literature first and to cradles much later.

The roots are Greek, and the sense that clings to the name is "lover of song", in Polish miłująca pieśń. That reading leans on melos, the Greek word for a tune or a lyric line. It is a meaning attached later, and its first syllable does not prove it.

Telimena has no common short form and no everyday nickname in Polish registers. No nickname softens it. A child called Telimena today would likely be the only one on her class list. She keeps a Greek root and one short meaning: lover of song.

When Telimena celebrates name day

Telimena appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 February.

Next name day
3 February
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 146 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Telimena

1 in 218872 women in Poland is named Telimena. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3387 among female names.

People with the name Telimena 2019 → 2025
103 -5 since 2019
2020 108 0
2021 109 +1
2022 109 0
2023 108 -1
2024 106 -2
2025 103 -3

Telimena's popularity over time

3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1368 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.

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3 newborns with the name Telimena in 2025
national rank #1368 that year

Telimena as a middle name

Telimena is a first name for 103 women in Poland and a middle name for another 71, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 801st, between Tatenda (71) and Wieńczysława (71).

As a first name
103
As a middle name
71
first name 59% middle name 41%
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