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/).
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.
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.
Aldona's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
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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Podlaskie2 girls born+497%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian3 girls born+439%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+73%
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Silesian2 girls born+73%
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Masovian2 girls born+11%
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).
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125
7,098Magda
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126
7,012Luiza
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1276,846Aldona
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128
6,754Izabella
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129
6,576Żaneta
When Aldona celebrates name day
Aldona appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 11 October.