Tarsylia
Fewer than 80 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have gone their whole lives without meeting one. The name is Latin: it points back to Tarsus and marks someone as being from that city.
Tarsylia Pronunciation
Tarsylia is pronounced tahr-SIHL-yah (/tarˈsɨlja/).
What Tarsylia means
Where Tarsylia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tarsylia comes from Latin, and its meaning points to a place. The short reading is plain: "one from Tarsus." Tarsus was an old city in Cilicia, on a coastal plain in what is now southern Turkey. Roman naming often fixed a person to a town or a region, and this name does the same work.
Tarsus has a documented past. It sat on the Cydnus river and served as a hub of trade in Cilicia. It was also the birthplace of the apostle Paul, recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. A girl called Tarsylia holds that geography in her name.
In Poland the name stayed rare. It has no common short form and no everyday nickname. On a school register it reads as unfamiliar, sounded out once and then remembered.
The meaning does not drift. Tarsylia is the one from Tarsus, pochodząca z tarsu.
When Tarsylia celebrates name day
Tarsylia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 24 December.
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 Tarsylia
1 in 292777 women in Poland is named Tarsylia. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4079 among female names.
Tarsylia as a middle name
Tarsylia is a first name for 77 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1807th, between Tanya (17) and Tess (17).
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#1805 Tanita17
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#1806 Tanya17
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#1807 Tarsylia17
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#1808 Tess17
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#1809 Thảo17