Anatolia
Greek in origin, with a meaning that points at daybreak: "sunrise". It stays rare in Poland, given to only a handful of girls a year, so most people here have never met one.
Anatolia Pronunciation
Anatolia is pronounced ah-nah-TOL-yah (/anaˈtɔlja/).
What Anatolia means
Where Anatolia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anatolia comes from Greek. The word anatolḗ meant sunrise, and by extension the east, the quarter of the sky where light first breaks. The meaning is plain: sunrise. The same word named the peninsula of Anatolia, the land the Greeks pictured toward the dawn, so the name carries a geography as well as a direction.
For a long time the name belonged to the calendar of saints. Anatolia of Thora was a Roman virgin martyr, and her feast falls on 9 July, a date that let the name settle into church registers and, later, into Polish use.
In a Polish class register the name reads as older than most of its neighbours, and a teacher calling it aloud is naming a girl after the first light of morning, in Greek, anatolḗ.
When Anatolia celebrates name day
Anatolia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 July.
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 Anatolia
1 in 145444 women in Poland is named Anatolia. 155 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2593 among female names.
Anatolia's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1182 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2011.
Where Anatolia is most popular
Anatolia is most popular in Masovian, 357% above the national average (15 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+42%) and Lower Silesian (+38%).
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Masovian15 girls born+357%
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Silesian3 girls born+42%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+38%
Anatolia as a middle name
Anatolia is a first name for 155 women in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 989th, between Alia (48) and Dominica (48).
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#987 Tara49
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#988 Alia48
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#989 Anatolia48
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#990 Dominica48
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#991 Evelina48