Zefiryna
The name carries the Greek word for the west wind, the zephyr. Only about 140 Polish women bear it, and it goes to almost no newborns now: most Poles will never meet one.
Zefiryna Pronunciation
Zefiryna is pronounced ze-fee-RIH-nah (/zɛfiˈrɨna/).
What Zefiryna means
Where Zefiryna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zefiryna begins with the Greek Zephyros, the west wind. The Greeks made that wind a god. Zephyros brought the mild air of spring, and his name meant the wind that came from the west. Polish keeps the sense close in the word zefir, a light breeze.
The name passed into Latin as Zephyrinus, and history records a real bearer: Zephyrinus, bishop of Rome in the early third century. From that masculine line Polish still holds Zefiryn, the man's form that stands beside Zefiryna.
A girl called Zefiryna rarely meets her name twice in one school register. The name stays uncommon, old at the root, softened by Polish endings. What it means has not changed since the Greeks: zachodni wiatr, the west wind.
How many people are named Zefiryna
1 in 161027 women in Poland is named Zefiryna. 140 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2780 among female names.
Zefiryna as a middle name
Zefiryna is a first name for 140 women in Poland and a middle name for another 46, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1020th, between Rosanna (46) and Zeynep (46).
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#1018 Micaela46
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#1019 Rosanna46
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#1020 Zefiryna46
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#1021 Zeynep46
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#1022 Annamaria45