Kariona
Only about a hundred women in Poland carry it, and not one girl has been given it since 2000. A Greek name meaning "the loved one".
Kariona Pronunciation
Kariona is pronounced kahr-YO-nah (/karˈjɔna/).
What Kariona means
Where Kariona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kariona is a Greek name, and the sense handed down with it is "beloved."
Greek kept more than one word for love, and the affection behind "beloved" sits close to agape, the word early Greek writers used for deep, chosen care. Kariona carries no recorded diminutive and no separate male form. It arrives without the crowd of variants that surround older names, which makes it read as newly minted on a Polish class register.
On an official form at the urząd, a clerk meets Kariona with no name-day to attach and no saint to check. The name answers only to its meaning. To call a child Kariona is to hand her a Greek word for beloved, and little else stands between the name and the word beloved.
How many people are named Kariona
1 in 223206 women in Poland is named Kariona. 101 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3431 among female names.
Kariona as a middle name
Kariona is a first name for 101 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, an 85/15 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1723rd, between Jolie (18) and Lajla (18).
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#1721 Jamila18
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#1722 Jolie18
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#1723 Kariona18
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#1724 Lajla18
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#1725 Leonida18