Varda
A Hebrew name meaning "rose". Just 24 women in Poland carry it, and none have been born since 2000: most Poles will never meet one.
Varda Pronunciation
What Varda means
Where Varda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Varda begins in Hebrew, in the word vered, the everyday term for rose. The name takes that word and makes it a person. Rose, róża, and nothing hidden underneath. It belongs to Jewish naming tradition, where flower names for daughters run deep.
The rose sits behind the name as ordinary vocabulary rather than a later metaphor. Shoshana points to a lily or rose, Vered to a rose, Varda to the same. A girl called Varda is named for the flower with no detour.
In Poland the name is rare. It has no diminutives of its own, no softened Polish variant. On a school register in Kraków, Varda would stand alone among the Zuzannas and Julias. Ask where the name comes from and the answer is short. It means rose.
How many people are named Varda
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Varda. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8916 among female names.
Varda as a middle name
Varda is a first name for 24 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5321st, between Vannessa (3) and Venesa (3).
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#5319 Vaiana3
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#5320 Vannessa3
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#5321 Varda3
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#5322 Venesa3
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#5323 Venezia3