Żeneta
Fewer than twenty Polish women carry it, so most people here will never meet one, and no girls have been given it this century. It's a spelling variant of Żaneta, Hebrew at root, from a phrase meaning "god is gracious".
Żeneta Pronunciation
Żeneta is pronounced zhe-NE-tah (/ʐɛˈnɛta/).
What Żeneta means
Where Żeneta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żeneta traces back through French to a Hebrew root. It began as Jeannette, a French diminutive of Jeanne, the feminine of Jean. That name descends from the Hebrew Yochanan, which means god is gracious, bóg jest łaskawy in Polish.
The Polish spelling keeps the French sound and drops the French look. Alongside it sits żaneta, the more common variant, closer to the original Jeannette. Both names say the same thing about grace, even where their bearers never think about Hebrew.
In a Polish class register, Żeneta stands out. It is rarer than żaneta, rarer still than the Katarzynas and Annas around it. A teacher reading the list pauses on it once, then moves on.
The meaning has not changed since Yochanan. God is gracious.
How many people are named Żeneta
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Żeneta. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13109 among female names.
Żeneta as a middle name
Żeneta is a first name for 14 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5394th, between Żakelina (3) and Żermena (3).
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#5392 Şebnem3
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#5393 Żakelina3
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#5394 Żeneta3
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#5395 Żermena3
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#5396 Żywila3