Syntia
Greek at root, and it starts with a hill: Kynthos on Delos, the island myth named as the birthplace of Artemis. The spelling looks modern, but most Poles have never met a Syntia, and every one on record is a girl.
Syntia Pronunciation
Syntia is pronounced SIHNT-yah (/ˈsɨntja/).
What Syntia means
Where Syntia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Syntia is the Polish spelling of a Greek name, and it begins with a hill rather than a person. Mount Cynthus rises on Delos, the small Aegean island that ancient writers named as the birthplace of Artemis and Apollo. From that peak came Kynthia, an epithet of Artemis, the goddess said to have been born beneath it.
The short meaning keeps to that ground: from Mount Cynthus, pochodząca z góry Kynthos in Polish. Centuries on, the Roman poet Propertius took the same word, Cynthia, for the woman he addressed across his elegies. Through Latin it passed into English, and Polish took it by ear and wrote it Syntia.
On a school register the name reads as recent. Its origin is anything but. Say it and you are naming a Greek mountain: from Mount Cynthus on Delos.
When Syntia celebrates name day
Syntia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 January.
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 Syntia
1 in 90537 women in Poland is named Syntia. 249 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1947 among female names.
Syntia's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #895 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Syntia is most popular
Syntia is most popular in Greater Poland, 356% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+259%) and Pomeranian (+167%).
-
Greater Poland5 girls born+356%
-
Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+259%
-
Pomeranian2 girls born+167%
-
Silesian2 girls born+73%
Syntia as a middle name
Syntia is a first name for 249 women in Poland and a middle name for another 54, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 932nd, between Rosalie (54) and Szczęsna (54).
-
#930 Mathilde54
-
#931 Rosalie54
-
#932 Syntia54
-
#933 Szczęsna54
-
#934 Żanna54