Anatola
From Greek, carrying the sense of the east and the rising sun. It stays rare in Poland: only a few dozen girls born each recent year, and most Poles have never met one.
Anatola Pronunciation
Anatola is pronounced ah-nah-TO-lah (/anaˈtɔla/).
What Anatola means
Where Anatola comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anatola grows from the Greek word anatolē, the rising of the sun. The same root gave Europe the name Anatolia, the eastern land beyond the Aegean, the peninsula that holds most of modern Turkey. In Polish the sense stays plain: wschód słońca, sunrise.
The masculine Anatol has traveled further in Poland than its feminine twin. On a school register a girl named Anatola would sit close to that form in the alphabet. Both point back to the east.
Greek speakers used anatolē for the compass direction and for the daily climb of the sun. The word pointed east on a map and up in the sky.
The short meaning holds the name to something literal. Anatola marks a direction and an hour, the first light of morning. Its oldest sense is still sunrise.
When Anatola celebrates name day
Anatola 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 Anatola
1 in 130311 women in Poland is named Anatola. 173 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2420 among female names.
Anatola's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #999 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Anatola is most popular
Anatola is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 330% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+179%) and Lublin (+100%). It is least common in Silesian, 10% below average.
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Warmian-Masurian3 girls born+330%
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Pomeranian4 girls born+179%
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Lublin2 girls born+100%
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Lesser Poland4 girls born+81%
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Masovian6 girls born+74%
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Silesian2 girls born−10%
Anatola as a middle name
Anatola is a first name for 173 women in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1133rd, between Amélie (37) and Annemarie (37).
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#1131 Aleksa37
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#1132 Amélie37
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#1133 Anatola37
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#1134 Annemarie37
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#1135 Anżelika37