Sylwina
Barely 122 women in Poland carry Sylwina, so most people here have never met one. The name traces to Latin silva, the forest: someone born of the woods.
Sylwina Pronunciation
Sylwina is pronounced sihl-VEE-nah (/sɨlˈvina/).
What Sylwina means
Where Sylwina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sylwina grows from Latin silva, the word for forest and woodland. Roman names in this family reach back to Silvanus, the old god of woods and field boundaries. From the same root come Sylwia and the masculine Sylwester. Silva also gave English "sylvan", still used for anything of the woods.
The short meaning stays close to the ground: from the forest, leśna in Polish. Beside Sylwina sits the variant sylwin, trimmed and masculine, holding the same wooded sense. In Poland the name Sylwester marks New Year's Eve itself, its imieniny landing on the last day of the year.
The form is rare. On a Polish class register, Sylwina would stand out among the Zuzannas and Julias, one name drawn straight from Latin trees. Read it back and the root shows plainly: silva, the forest.
When Sylwina celebrates name day
Sylwina appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 17 February.
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 Sylwina
1 in 184786 women in Poland is named Sylwina. 122 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3048 among female names.
Sylwina as a middle name
Sylwina is a first name for 122 women in Poland and a middle name for another 80, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 740th, between Nikoleta (80) and Audrey (79).
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#738 Lauren80
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#739 Nikoleta80
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#740 Sylwina80
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#741 Audrey79
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#742 Belén79