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Żaneta

Around 27,000 Polish women carry it, but it has nearly stopped being given: only a handful of newborn girls last year. The sense it inherited is "god is gracious", which ties it to the Joanna family.

Żaneta Pronunciation

Żaneta is pronounced zhah-NE-tah (/ʐaˈnɛta/).

Related names
Żanette
Alive in 2025
27,072
Newborns 2025
6
National rank
#250
Next name day
27 December
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What Żaneta means

Where Żaneta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Żaneta reached Polish speakers and took a Slavic spelling. The ż at the front, the -eta ending, both sit easily for anyone who speaks the language. A fuller variant exists, Żanetta, the doubled t giving it more heft on the page.

The meaning handed down is "god is gracious," in Polish bóg jest łaskawy. That sense links Żaneta to the wider Joanna family, where the old promise of grace sits underneath. The name inherited the meaning without wearing it on the surface.

In Poland the name had its decade. Girls born in the 1970s and 1980s carried it in numbers, and by 2024 only two newborns were given it. Roughly twenty-seven thousand women in Poland answer to it now. Its name-day falls on 27 December.

So the record stays clear. A Slavic spelling, the variant Żanetta, and a meaning that reads bóg jest łaskawy, god is gracious.

When Żaneta celebrates name day

Żaneta appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 27 December.

Next name day
27 December
Sunday in 2026
Next one in 63 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Żaneta

1 in 833 women in Poland is named Żaneta. 27,072 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #250 among female names.

People with the name Żaneta 2019 → 2025
27,072 −151 since 2019
2020 27,221 −2
2021 27,216 −5
2022 27,187 −29
2023 27,136 −51
2024 27,106 −30
2025 27,072 −34

Żaneta's popularity over time

6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #904 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #250 name among living women, even as it slips to #904 among newborns.

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6 newborns with the name Żaneta in 2025
national rank #904 that year

Where parents choose Żaneta

Żaneta is most popular in Greater Poland, 187% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+171%) and West Pomeranian (+144%).

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +187%
    1 in 35,874 babies
  • Silesian
    +171%
    1 in 37,931 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +144%
    1 in 42,213 babies

Żaneta as a middle name

Żaneta is a first name for 27,072 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,576, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 129th, between Izabella (6,754) and Julianna (6,567).

As a first name
27,072
As a middle name
6,576
first name 80% middle name 20%
Middle-name ranking women

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