Illona
Just 56 women in Poland go by this spelling, so most people here have never met one. The name is Hebrew at root, meaning light or torch.
Illona Pronunciation
Illona is pronounced eel-LO-nah (/ilˈlɔna/).
What Illona means
Where Illona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Illona begins in Hebrew, in the idea of light, of a torch raised in the dark. The short meaning stays near that root: światło and blask, light and glow. In Polish name handbooks it sits beside its plainer variant, Ilona, and the two have shared one story for a long time.
The diminutives soften it. Ilonka fits a small child. Ila works for quick, everyday calling. A teacher reading a class register might reach Illona and pause at the doubled letter, since the single-l Ilona is far more common across Poland.
The Hebrew sense points back to brightness, to a flame that shows the way. Ilonka signs a birthday card with fewer strokes of the pen. The name holds its old meaning: light, a torch.
How many people are named Illona
1 in 402568 women in Poland is named Illona. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4958 among female names.
Illona as a middle name
Illona is a first name for 56 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1718th, between Georgiana (18) and Irène (18).
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#1716 Favour18
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#1717 Georgiana18
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#1718 Illona18
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#1719 Irène18
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#1720 Jackie18