Idalia
From Latin, with a meaning that reads like a small poem: "behold the sun". Long a rare sight in Poland, it's climbing again, given to more girls last year than through most of the 2000s.
Idalia Pronunciation
Idalia is pronounced ee-DAHL-yah (/iˈdalja/).
What Idalia means
Where Idalia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Idalia comes from Latin, and the short meaning handed down with it is "behold the sun." The form is spare and clear. Latin shaped it and later languages kept nearly the same letters, so a Polish child named Idalia wears almost the spelling a Roman one would have.
The sense of seeing the sun reads like a gloss laid over the name rather than its literal root. In Latin the word points first toward Idalium, a town on Cyprus sacred to Venus, whom Virgil calls Idalia in the Aeneid. That solar reading was attached later, the way a name gathers meanings across generations. The origin stays Latin even when the story around it grows.
Picture the name in a Polish class register, four syllables among shorter and more common ones, simple to call out at roll. Its Polish meaning travels as widząca słońce, "seeing the sun." That phrase is where a reader here first meets it.
When Idalia celebrates name day
Idalia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 November.
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 Idalia
1 in 23098 women in Poland is named Idalia. 976 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #976 among female names.
Idalia's popularity over time
47 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #362 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2003.
Where parents choose Idalia
Idalia is most popular in Pomeranian, 146% above the national average (47 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+62%) and Greater Poland (+58%). It is least common in Lubusz and Opole, 69% and 67% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian
+146%1 in 3,134 babies
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Lower Silesian
+62%1 in 4,762 babies
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Greater Poland
+58%1 in 4,892 babies
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Lubusz
−69%1 in 24,829 babies
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Opole
−67%1 in 23,048 babies
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Lesser Poland
−63%1 in 20,629 babies
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Pomeranian+146% 47 born1 in 3,134 babies+146%
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Lower Silesian+62% 33 born1 in 4,762 babies+62%
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Greater Poland+58% 44 born1 in 4,892 babies+58%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+20% 17 born1 in 6,434 babies+20%
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Masovian+20% 55 born1 in 6,441 babies+20%
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West Pomeranian+10% 12 born1 in 7,035 babies+10%
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Łódź−3% 16 born1 in 7,920 babies−3%
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Lublin−17% 11 born1 in 9,334 babies−17%
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Podlaskie−41% 5 born1 in 13,157 babies−41%
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Subcarpathian−42% 9 born1 in 13,396 babies−42%
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Warmian-Masurian−57% 4 born1 in 17,948 babies−57%
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Silesian−59% 12 born1 in 18,965 babies−59%
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Lesser Poland−63% 11 born1 in 20,629 babies−63%
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Opole−67% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies−67%
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Lubusz−69% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies−69%
Idalia as a middle name
Idalia is a first name for 976 women in Poland and a middle name for another 260, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 418th, between Dobrochna (261) and Emila (259).
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#416 Lubomira264
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#417 Dobrochna261
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#418 Idalia260
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#419 Emila259
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#420 Francesca259