Wenecja
From the Latin for "from Venice", the city's name carried over into Poland as a girl's name. Only about 15 women here hold it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Wenecja Pronunciation
Wenecja is pronounced ve-NETS-yah (/vɛˈnɛt͡sja/).
What Wenecja means
Where Wenecja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wenecja is the Polish name for Venice, and it began as a place. The Latin Venetia named the lagoon city and the region around it, taken from the Veneti, an ancient people who settled at the head of the Adriatic. Give the name to a daughter and you hand her a city.
The short meaning stays literal: pochodząca z Wenecji, the one from Venice. There is no saint Wenecja, no name-day fixed in the calendar. It arrives without diminutives or variants of its own.
Poland keeps its own small Venice. Wenecja is a village near Żnin in the Pałuki region, with the ruins of a medieval castle and a narrow-gauge railway museum. So the name points two ways, south to the Adriatic and home to a Pałuki hamlet.
On a class register in September, Wenecja sits apart from the Zuzannas and Julias. The name states its origin plainly. Wenecja means Venice.
How many people are named Wenecja
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Wenecja. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12394 among female names.
Wenecja as a middle name
Wenecja is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2039th, between Tomasza (14) and Weneta (14).
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#2037 Talita14
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#2038 Tomasza14
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#2039 Wenecja14
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#2040 Weneta14
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#2041 Wenus14