Penelopa
One of the rarest names on the Polish register: just 22 women carry it, and the record shows no newborn girls taking it in any year since 2000. At root it is Greek for "weaver".
Penelopa Pronunciation
Penelopa is pronounced pe-ne-LO-pah (/pɛnɛˈlɔpa/).
What Penelopa means
Where Penelopa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Penelope is a Greek name, and the meaning usually attached to it is "weaver." The oldest bearer we can point to is Homer's Penelope, wife of Odysseus in the Odyssey. She wove a burial shroud by day and unravelled it each night, stalling the suitors who crowded her hall while she waited for his return. That story tied the name to the loom long before it reached Poland.
The Greek form survives in the variant Pinelopi, still heard in Greece today. Polish keeps its own spelling, Penelopa, and glosses the meaning plainly as "tkaczka."
A girl named Penelopa in a Polish class register carries a name most of her classmates know from books rather than from anyone at home. It has never been common here. That rarity is part of what the name offers: one Penelopa to a room, usually, a first name that reaches back to a woman famous for her patience and her thread.
When Penelopa celebrates name day
Penelopa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 May.
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 Penelopa
1 in 1024720 women in Poland is named Penelopa. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9411 among female names.
Penelopa as a middle name
Penelopa is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1430th, between Oluchi (25) and Petronella (25).
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#1428 Nadja25
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#1429 Oluchi25
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#1430 Penelopa25
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#1431 Petronella25
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#1432 Pnina25