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Aldona

Once common in Poland, it is now rarely given to newborns; around 21,000 people still carry it. In practice, it's a women's name.

Aldona Pronunciation

Aldona is pronounced ahl-DO-nah (/alˈdɔna/).

Alive in 2025
20,816
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#269
Next name day
11 October
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What Aldona means

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

The name Aldona reaches back to Slavic roots. Its short meaning, noble and wealthy, comes to us with a shrug of uncertainty, the kind scholars attach when the trail runs thin. So the sense of rank sits lightly on it, more suggestion than settled fact.

History gives the name a real bearer. Aldona of Lithuania, daughter of Grand Duke Gediminas, married Casimir III of Poland in 1325 and became queen. She died young, in 1339, and the chronicles remember her under this very name.

Literature kept it in circulation too. In Adam Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod, published in 1828, Aldona is the devoted wife who shuts herself away in a tower. Polish readers meet the name in that poem long before they meet it on any class register.

Say it once. It is short and firm. When a girl named Aldona signs an official form at the urząd, she writes a name that once carried a queen and a Slavic claim to nobility.

When Aldona celebrates name day

Aldona appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 11 October.

Next name day
11 October
Sunday in 2026
Next one in 31 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Aldona

1 in 1083 women in Poland is named Aldona. 20,816 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #269 among female names.

People with the name Aldona 2019 → 2025
20,816 -634 since 2019
2020 21,395 -55
2021 21,286 -109
2022 21,160 -126
2023 21,069 -91
2024 20,938 -131
2025 20,816 -122

Aldona's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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<2 newborns with the name Aldona in 2025
below the publication floor that year

Where Aldona is most popular

Aldona is most popular in Podlaskie, 497% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+439%) and Lesser Poland (+73%).

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Aldona as a middle name

Aldona is a first name for 20,816 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,846, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 127th, between Luiza (7,012) and Izabella (6,754).

As a first name
20,816
As a middle name
6,846
first name 75% middle name 25%
Middle-name ranking women

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