Wiara
Wiara is the ordinary Polish word for faith, traced to Proto-Slavic *věra*, "belief" or "trust". As a name it barely exists: only nine women in Poland carry it, and the register shows no girls given it this century.
Wiara Pronunciation
Wiara is pronounced VYAH-rah (/ˈvjara/).
What Wiara means
Where Wiara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wiara is the Polish word for faith, and it goes back to Proto-Slavic věra, meaning faith or belief. That root reaches further, to a Proto-Indo-European stem for "true," the same source behind Latin verus and German wahr*. The name shares an ancestor with words for truth across Europe, though its Slavic sense settled on belief and trust.
The same word travels as a given name elsewhere. Russians know it as Vera, Czechs and Slovaks as Věra and Viera. In Polish, Wiara stays close to the ordinary noun.
Wiara also belongs to a trio. Christian tradition names three sisters, Wiara, Nadzieja and Miłość, daughters of Saint Zofia, martyred as children under Hadrian. The Bollandists later judged them a personification of the virtues rather than real girls, and their cult is documented from seventh-century pilgrim accounts. On a class register the name is plain. In Polish that is wiara, faith, and ufność, trust.
When Wiara celebrates name day
Wiara appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 1 August.
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 Wiara
1 in 2504870 women in Poland is named Wiara. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18127 among female names.
Wiara as a middle name
Wiara is a first name for 9 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 38/62 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1949th, between Wesna (15) and Winifred (15).
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#1947 Viviane15
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#1948 Wesna15
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#1949 Wiara15
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#1950 Winifred15
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#1951 Yelyzaveta15