Zhenya
Barely 30 people in Poland carry it, and it splits across women and men: a name either can hold. Slavic at root, from a word meaning "well-born, noble".
Zhenya Pronunciation
Zhenya is pronounced skhe-NIH-ah (/sxɛˈnɨa/).
What Zhenya means
Where Zhenya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zhenya comes from Russian, grown in Slavic ground. The meaning fixed to it, well-born and noble, traces back to the Greek eugenes, "of good birth." That root spread west long ago and left its sense of nobility in more than one European name. In Russian the form serves both men and women. One short name for either.
It is a small name. Four letters here, Женя in Cyrillic. On a Polish class register it would look foreign beside Kasia or Ola. The meaning reads clear once you know it. Szlachetnie urodzony, born to standing.
The idea of noble birth is the whole of the name. Zhenya points to good blood, to the eugenes root, to the sense of one raised high. Whatever else changes, the name keeps its meaning: well-born.
How many people are named Zhenya
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Zhenya. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7770 among female names.