Urania
Only twelve women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it since 2000. From Greek, it means "heavenly, of heaven".
Urania Pronunciation
Urania is pronounced oo-RAH-nyah (/uˈraɲa/).
What Urania means
Where Urania comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Urania comes from Greek Ourania, built on ouranos, the word for sky or heaven. The short meaning stays close to that root: heavenly, of heaven. In Greek myth Ourania was the Muse of astronomy, the one who charted the stars. Plato's Symposium also names Aphrodite Urania, a heavenly counterpart to the earthly goddess. So the name arrived already pointing upward.
The name is rare in Poland. On a class register it would stand out. It has no Polish diminutive of its own, no softened everyday form. A child called Urania answers to the full three syllables.
Astronomers kept the word aloft. When Herschel found a new planet in 1781, Johann Bode proposed the name Uranus, after the Greek sky god. The same root sits in uranology, an old term for the study of the heavens. The meaning has not drifted. It still says: of heaven, niebiańska.
How many people are named Urania
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Urania. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14614 among female names.
Urania as a middle name
Urania is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3876th, between Tuyet (5) and Uzoamaka (5).
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#3874 Traute5
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#3875 Tuyet5
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#3876 Urania5
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#3877 Uzoamaka5
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#3878 Vannesa5