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Solomiya

A Ukrainian name that was essentially absent from Poland until a few years ago, now given to a small, steady handful of girls each year. It goes back to the Hebrew word for "peace" and sits close to the Polish Salomea.

Solomiya Pronunciation

Solomiya is pronounced so-lom-YIH-ah (/sɔlɔmˈjɨa/).

Related names
Salomea
Alive in 2025
442
Newborns 2025
13
National rank
#1408

What Solomiya means

Where Solomiya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Solomiya reaches Ukrainian from Hebrew, from the root shalom, peace. The Polish variant of the same name is Salomea. The short meaning holds steady across both languages: peace, pokój.

The Hebrew root behind it also gave the world Solomon, the king whose name shares that promise. Ukrainian speakers took the feminine line of it and kept it as their own. One bearer made it famous. Solomiya Krushelnytska, born in 1872, was the soprano who rescued Puccini's Madama Butterfly after the audience jeered its premiere at La Scala. She sang a revised version to triumph, and today the Lviv opera house carries her name.

Read down a Ukrainian class register and Solomiya sits plainly among the other names. It reads as peace.

How many people are named Solomiya

1 in 51004 women in Poland is named Solomiya. 442 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1408 among female names.

People with the name Solomiya 2019 → 2025
442 +363 since 2019
2020 86 +7
2021 87 +1
2022 97 +10
2023 441 +344
2024 443 +2
2025 442 −1

Solomiya's popularity over time

13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #645 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.

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13 newborns with the name Solomiya in 2025
national rank #645 that year

Where parents choose Solomiya

Solomiya is most popular in Lower Silesian, 175% above the national average (10 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+135%) and Masovian (+95%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 62% and 60% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +175%
    1 in 15,713 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +135%
    1 in 18,415 babies
  • Masovian
    +95%
    1 in 22,142 babies
Chosen least
  • Silesian
    −62%
    1 in 113,792 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −60%
    1 in 107,622 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    −28%
    1 in 60,283 babies

Solomiya as a middle name

Solomiya is a first name for 442 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4427th, between Solene (4) and Sorcha (4).

As a first name
442
As a middle name
4
first name 99% middle name 1%
Middle-name ranking women

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