Antonia
A Latin name meaning "priceless". It holds a spot in Poland's top 1000 for girls but stays rare: most people here have never met one, and births have slipped since the name peaked in the 2010s.
Antonia Pronunciation
Antonia is pronounced ahn-TO-nyah (/anˈtɔɲa/).
What Antonia means
Where Antonia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Antonia grew out of Antonius, the name of an old Roman clan, the gens Antonia. The Romans themselves did not agree on where the word began, and some traced it to Etruscan roots now lost. So the sense of "priceless" or "invaluable" came later, attached to the name by people who wanted it to mean something warm rather than something merely old.
The most famous early bearer was Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and niece of the emperor Augustus. She raised a household of emperors and was remembered in Rome for her steadiness.
In Poland the name keeps close company. Antoni is its masculine twin. Antonina is the fuller feminine form, and from both come the everyday Tosia and Tonia, the names a child actually answers to. A second meaning, "kwitnąca", the blooming one, drifted in through an old confusion with the Greek word for flower. Read a school register in Kraków today and you will find a Tosia near the top. Priceless is the promise; Antonia is the word that holds it.
When Antonia celebrates name day
Antonia appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 28 February.
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 Antonia
1 in 11227 women in Poland is named Antonia. 2,008 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #703 among female names.
Antonia's popularity over time
34 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #420 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where parents choose Antonia
Antonia is most popular in Lesser Poland, 47% above the national average (63 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+44%) and Lower Silesian (+38%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Lublin, 84% and 59% below average respectively.
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Lesser Poland
+47%1 in 3,602 babies
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West Pomeranian
+44%1 in 3,671 babies
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Lower Silesian
+38%1 in 3,833 babies
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Podlaskie
−84%1 in 32,893 babies
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Lublin
−59%1 in 12,834 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−42%1 in 9,115 babies
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Lesser Poland+47% 63 born1 in 3,602 babies+47%
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West Pomeranian+44% 23 born1 in 3,671 babies+44%
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Lower Silesian+38% 41 born1 in 3,833 babies+38%
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Pomeranian+22% 34 born1 in 4,333 babies+22%
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Greater Poland+21% 49 born1 in 4,393 babies+21%
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Opole+15% 10 born1 in 4,610 babies+15%
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Silesian+5% 45 born1 in 5,057 babies+5%
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Warmian-Masurian−11% 12 born1 in 5,983 babies−11%
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Masovian−13% 58 born1 in 6,108 babies−13%
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Łódź−16% 20 born1 in 6,336 babies−16%
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Lubusz−25% 7 born1 in 7,094 babies−25%
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Subcarpathian−25% 17 born1 in 7,092 babies−25%
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Holy Cross−33% 7 born1 in 7,919 babies−33%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−42% 12 born1 in 9,115 babies−42%
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Lublin−59% 8 born1 in 12,834 babies−59%
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Podlaskie−84% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−84%
Antonia as a middle name
Antonia is a first name for 2,008 women in Poland and a middle name for another 556, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 304th, between Mirella (561) and Carolina (550).
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#302 Margaret565
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#303 Mirella561
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#304 Antonia556
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#305 Carolina550
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#306 Ligia549