Akwila
From the Latin aquila, "eagle," the bird Rome mounted on a silver standard and carried before its legions. In Poland it stays vanishingly rare: most people will go a lifetime without meeting an Akwila.
Akwila Pronunciation
Akwila is pronounced ahk-FEE-lah (/akˈfila/).
What Akwila means
Where Akwila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Akwila comes from the Latin word aquila, which means eagle. The origin is plain and old. Roman legions marched behind a silver eagle mounted on a pole, the standard also called the aquila, carried by a soldier who took his title from it.
The name reaches the New Testament through a real bearer. In Acts 18, Aquila is a Jewish tentmaker who leaves Rome for Corinth and works beside Paul. His wife Priscilla appears next to him in the text, and the pair are named together more than once. A second-century scholar, Aquila of Sinope, carried the same name and translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek.
In Polish the meaning lands on one word, orzeł, the same bird that sits on the national coat of arms. A child listed as Akwila on a school register holds a Roman soldier's word and a bird of prey at the same time. The eagle stood for height and sharp sight long before any crest. The root stays visible under it all: aquila, eagle, orzeł.
When Akwila celebrates name day
Akwila appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 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 Akwila
1 in 11271917 women in Poland is named Akwila. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #44469 among female names.
Akwila as a middle name
Akwila is a first name for 2 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5453rd, between Akilina (2) and Alaia (2).
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#5451 Akari2
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#5452 Akilina2
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#5453 Akwila2
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#5454 Alaia2
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#5455 Alani2