Ania
From Hebrew, carrying the sense of "grace". As a registered first name it stays rare in Poland: only about 560 women hold it, and new registrations keep sliding.
Ania Pronunciation
Ania is pronounced AH-nyah (/ˈaɲa/).
What Ania means
Where Ania comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ania begins where Anna begins, in the Hebrew name Channah, which carried the sense of grace, of favor. Polish took Anna and softened it for daily use, and Ania is what most an Anna answers to at home and among friends. The word behind it, łaska, points less toward prettiness than toward being looked on with kindness.
The name opens into a small family of forms. Anka sounds brisk and next-door. Andzia is childish and fond. Hania keeps the older h, the breath at the front of Channah that Greek and Latin later dropped. Variants like Hanna and Anja live beside them all, so one girl can be Anna on her birth certificate and Ania in the school register the teacher reads out each morning.
Every 26 July, the imieniny of Saint Anna fills the Polish calendar, and the Anias celebrate under their fuller name. The grace the Hebrew word promised still sits in the short form: wdzięk, łaska, Ania.
How many people are named Ania
1 in 39971 women in Poland is named Ania. 564 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1250 among female names.
Ania's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Ania as a middle name
Ania is a first name for 564 women in Poland and a middle name for another 116, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 610th, between Kryspina (117) and Świętosława (116).