Akwilina
From the Latin `aquila`, the eagle the Roman legions carried at the head of their columns. Most Poles have never met an Akwilina, and the name never grew a short pet form to soften it, so it stays plain and whole.
Akwilina Pronunciation
Akwilina is pronounced ahk-fee-LEE-nah (/akfiˈlina/).
What Akwilina means
Where Akwilina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Akwilina traces back to the Latin `aquila`, the eagle. That bird was Rome's military standard, carried at the head of the legions, and the name grew straight out of the word. A second Latin root sits close beside it. `Aquilus` meant dark or swarthy, and that overlap is why the Polish gloss offers „ciemna" next to „orzeł".
Christian tradition supplies an early bearer. Aquilina of Byblos was a young martyr honoured in the Eastern churches, and her feast on 13 June kept the name in the calendars. In Poland it stayed rare. Open a school register and you might find one Akwilina among the Annas and Katarzynas, if you find her at all.
The name never grew a standard Polish diminutive of its own. That leaves it plain and whole. Akwilina still means the eagle.
When Akwilina celebrates name day
Akwilina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 13 June.
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 Akwilina
1 in 4508767 women in Poland is named Akwilina. 5 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24856 among female names.
Akwilina as a middle name
Akwilina is a first name for 5 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3484th, between Aksana (5) and Albertina (5).
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#3482 Akemi5
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#3483 Aksana5
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#3484 Akwilina5
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#3485 Albertina5
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#3486 Aleksja5