Alona
A Hebrew name meaning "oak tree". Around 13,000 Polish women carry it, but it's fading from use now, so meeting one is memorable.
Alona Pronunciation
Alona is pronounced ah-LO-nah (/aˈlɔna/).
What Alona means
Where Alona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alona comes from Hebrew, where the word allon means oak. The name belongs to Jewish naming tradition, and its root points at the broad-crowned tree that grows across Israeli hillsides and in the pages of the Hebrew Bible. Alon is the masculine form; Alona turns the oak toward a girl.
The short meaning stays close to the ground: oak tree, in Polish dąb. It is one of the rare cases where a name says exactly what its root says, with no later gloss laid over it. The meaning is plain. In Genesis, Abraham pitches his tent by the oaks of Mamre, so the tree holds an old place in the text as well as in the language.
In a Polish class register, Alona sits among the A names, near Alicja and Aleksandra. The Hebrew oak makes no fuss there, and the letters look settled. What a bearer keeps is a plain word behind the sound: dąb.
How many people are named Alona
1 in 1698 women in Poland is named Alona. 13,287 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #326 among female names.
Alona's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Alona as a middle name
Alona is a first name for 13,287 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2234th, between Alieva (11) and Amani (11).
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#2232 Alexsandra11
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#2233 Alieva11
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#2234 Alona11
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#2235 Amani11
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#2236 Anaïs11