Entry № 3714 · Russian origin

Glafira Glafira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ glah-FEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Smooth / refined (rare Russian Orthodox)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "smooth / refined (rare russian orthodox)".

Glafira is the Russian form of the Greek Glaphyra — from glaphyros (smooth, polished, refined, elegant). Glafira Rosales — modern figure. Princess Glafira — modern Russian royal heritage naming.

Smooth / refined. Saint Glaphyra of Amasea (4th c.); appears in Turgenev, Goncharov + Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth opera.

The name in its native script.

Глафира
Transliteration
Glafira
Pronunciation
/ ɡlɑːˈfiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Glafira stands.

Glafira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Glafiras before her.

Real people
Saint Glaphyra of Amasea
Early Christian saint.
4th c.
In fiction
Glafira
Russian Realist literature.

Names connected to Glafira.

The number behind Glafira.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Glafira reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.