Wira
A Slavic name carrying the sense of "faith". Barely over a hundred Polish women hold it, and no girl received it last year: most Poles have never met a Wira.
Wira Pronunciation
Wira is pronounced VEE-rah (/ˈvira/).
What Wira means
Where Wira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wira grows from the Slavic root věra, meaning faith. Polish keeps that sense within reach, since the ordinary word wiara stands right beside the name. A Polish speaker hears the noun inside it at once.
The calendar gives Wira a name-day on the first of August. In Orthodox tradition, Faith, Hope, and Charity were three young sisters, and the eldest bore the name of faith itself. A girl called Wira holds that very old idea under a short, plain word. The meaning has stayed literal, close to the word every Pole already uses.
The whole name is faith. Four letters, no fuss. When Wira signs a form at the urząd, the Slavic root věra still sits behind those letters.
How many people are named Wira
1 in 194343 women in Poland is named Wira. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3150 among female names.
Wira as a middle name
Wira is a first name for 116 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2504th, between Wenessa (10) and Witalia (10).
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#2502 Vira10
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#2503 Wenessa10
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#2504 Wira10
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#2505 Witalia10
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#2506 Wszemiła10