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Apolonia

After years near the margins it's on a clear comeback, with more girls given it last year than in seasons past. From Greek, the name means "belonging to Apollo", and meeting an Apolonia still feels memorable.

Apolonia Pronunciation

Apolonia is pronounced ah-po-LO-nyah (/apɔˈlɔɲa/).

Related names
Polyna Pola
Alive in 2025
8,341
Newborns 2025
468
National rank
#391
Next name day
9 February
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What Apolonia means

Where Apolonia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Apolonia comes from Greek and means belonging to Apollo, the old god of light and healing. Its masculine variant is Apoloniusz. Both names point back to the same divine figure.

The name found a Christian bearer in Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, martyred around the year 249. Her torturers broke her teeth, and so she became the patron of dentists and of people fighting a toothache. In the Polish calendar her name-day falls on 9 February.

There is a famous modern Apolonia too. The silent-film star Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chałupiec in Lipno, and she trimmed the long name down to Pola for the screen. That short form still does the same work today. On a school register the full Apolonia can look formal, almost solemn, while Pola sounds like a friend. Underneath either one sits the same meaning: należąca do Apolla, belonging to Apollo.

When Apolonia celebrates name day

Apolonia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 9 February.

Next name day
9 February
Tuesday in 2027
Next one in 152 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Apolonia

1 in 2703 women in Poland is named Apolonia. 8,341 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #391 among female names.

People with the name Apolonia 2019 → 2025
8,341 +402 since 2019
2020 7,947 +8
2021 7,988 +41
2022 7,989 +1
2023 8,036 +47
2024 8,168 +132
2025 8,341 +173

Apolonia's popularity over time

468 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #115 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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468 newborns with the name Apolonia in 2025
national rank #115 that year

Where Apolonia is most popular

Apolonia is most popular in Masovian, 50% above the national average (716 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+18%) and Łódź (+14%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Silesian, 32% and 29% below average respectively.

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Apolonia as a middle name

Apolonia is a first name for 8,341 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,256, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 135th, between Nina (6,424) and Matylda (6,220).

As a first name
8,341
As a middle name
6,256
first name 57% middle name 43%
Middle-name ranking women

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