Paola Andrea
A rare pairing in Poland: just 27 women carry it, and most Poles have never met one. Latin at root, the two names read as "humble" and "brave".
Paola Andrea Pronunciation
Paola Andrea is pronounced pah-O-lah-ahnd-RE-ah (/paˈɔla andˈrɛa/).
What Paola Andrea means
Where Paola Andrea comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paola descends from the Latin Paulus, an adjective that meant small, and from small came the sense of humble. It is the feminine of Paweł, the same root Saint Paul carried across the Roman world. Spanish and Italian both kept it close.
Andrea does different work. In Spanish it lands on girls, and its root reaches back to the Greek word for brave. Set next to Paola, the compound holds two senses at once, the humble and the bold. Double given names like this are ordinary in Spanish speaking families.
Paola travels light on its own. Read a Polish class register and it sits apart from the Amelias and Zuzannas, with Andrea beside it rarer still. Both halves keep their old jobs. Paola means humble, Andrea means brave.
How many people are named Paola Andrea
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Paola Andrea. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8140 among female names.