Hermiona
Fewer than ten Polish women carry it: most Poles will never meet one. The root is Greek, growing from Hermes, the messenger of the gods, which gives the sense of posłanniczka.
Hermiona Pronunciation
Hermiona is pronounced kherm-YO-nah (/xɛrmˈjɔna/).
What Hermiona means
Where Hermiona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hermiona traces back to Greek, and to one god in particular. The name grows from Hermes, who carried messages between the gods and the world below. That link gives the short meaning: messenger, or posłanniczka in Polish.
The name has real bearers behind it. In Greek myth, Hermione was the daughter of Helen and Menelaus, the only child of the marriage that set off the Trojan War. Shakespeare later handed the name to the wronged queen in The Winter's Tale, a woman held for dead through sixteen years before her statue moves. Readers today meet it again in Hermione Granger.
In a Polish class register, Hermiona would sit apart from the Anny and Zofie around it. It reads as foreign, and it is. The Greek root stays visible.
A messenger crosses a distance to hand something over. Hermiona keeps Hermes inside it, and with him the sense of posłanniczka.
When Hermiona celebrates name day
Hermiona appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 4 September.
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 Hermiona
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Hermiona. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #20568 among female names.
Hermiona as a middle name
Hermiona is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2569th, between Hermine (9) and Hoai (9).
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#2567 Hen9
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#2568 Hermine9
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#2569 Hermiona9
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#2570 Hoai9
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#2571 Ifigenia9