Jolanta
Around 235,000 Polish women carry it, but the name has nearly left the nursery: just 14 newborn girls last year. Slavic at root, tied to the violet flower.
Jolanta Pronunciation
Jolanta is pronounced yo-LAHN-tah (/jɔˈlanta/).
What Jolanta means
Where Jolanta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jolanta grows from Slavic roots, and the meaning people repeat for it is "violet flower." Its diminutives soften it for daily use: Jola between friends, Jolka for a small girl. The older variant Jolenta stands closer to how the name looked centuries back.
The best documented bearer is Blessed Jolenta, born around 1244, a daughter of Béla IV of Hungary. She married Bolesław the Pious and lived as a duchess near Kalisz and Gniezno. She died in 1304. Rome approved her cult only in 1827, and her feast on 15 June became the name day that every Jolanta now shares.
Read a class register today and Jolanta can still appear among the newer names. On the imieniny in June, the short Jola does most of the greeting. The name means violet flower.
When Jolanta celebrates name day
Jolanta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 15 June.
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 Jolanta
1 in 96 women in Poland is named Jolanta. 235,383 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #49 among female names.
Jolanta's popularity over time
14 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #613 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #49 name among living women, even as it slips to #613 among newborns.
Where Jolanta is most popular
Jolanta is most popular in Silesian, 61% above the national average (18 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+56%) and West Pomeranian (+45%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Lublin, 72% and 60% below average respectively.
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Silesian18 girls born+61%
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Lower Silesian12 girls born+56%
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West Pomeranian6 girls born+45%
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Masovian23 girls born+32%
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Greater Poland12 girls born+14%
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Lesser Poland11 girls born−1%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian5 girls born−7%
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Opole2 girls born−12%
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Lubusz2 girls born−18%
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Subcarpathian4 girls born−32%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−38%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−43%
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Łódź3 girls born−52%
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Lublin2 girls born−60%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−72%
Jolanta as a middle name
Jolanta is a first name for 235,383 women in Poland and a middle name for another 117,441, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 25th, between Irena (117,720) and Aleksandra (116,155).
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#23 Weronika118,474
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#24 Irena117,720
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#25 Jolanta117,441
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#26 Aleksandra116,155
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#27 Karolina112,040