Wiwina
Germanic in form, but the sense traces back to the Latin *vivus*: living, alive. It stays so rare in Poland that most people here have never met a Wiwina.
Wiwina Pronunciation
Wiwina is pronounced vee-VEE-nah (/viˈvina/).
What Wiwina means
Where Wiwina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wiwina grew from Germanic soil, yet its meaning reaches back to the Latin word vivus, living or alive. One reading makes the name a daughter of Vivius, a Roman family name from the same root. The name means alive.
A documented bearer anchors it. Saint Wivina was born around 1103 in Oisy, founded the abbey of Grand-Bigard outside Brussels, and died there in 1170. In French she is remembered as Wivine, and her feast falls on the seventeenth of December.
Wiwina stays rare in Poland. A girl carrying it will likely be the only Wiwina in her school class register. The name has kept its Latin sense across those centuries: alive, from vivus.
When Wiwina celebrates name day
Wiwina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 17 December.
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 Wiwina
1 in 7514611 women in Poland is named Wiwina. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #43104 among female names.