Bona
Just 18 women in Poland carry Bona, so most Poles will never meet one. It comes from the Latin *bonus*, "good", and today goes to a girl only once in a rare while.
Bona Pronunciation
Bona is pronounced BO-nah (/ˈbɔna/).
What Bona means
Where Bona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bona comes straight from the Latin adjective bonus, meaning good. In its feminine form bona, the word simply calls a woman good. In Polish the sense lands as dobra. The name states a quality and stops there. It has no diminutives and no variants.
Poland already knows one Bona. Bona Sforza was born in 1494, married Sigismund the Old, and became queen in 1518. She brought Italian gardeners and new vegetables north, and the bunch of soup greens Poles call włoszczyzna is still often tied to her Italian court. A queen carried the name that means good.
Today the name is rare on a school register. A child called Bona would likely spell it twice and explain the Latin once. The word underneath has not shifted since Rome: bonus, good, dobra.
When Bona celebrates name day
Bona appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 29 January.
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 Bona
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Bona. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10571 among female names.
Bona's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Bona as a middle name
Bona is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 43/57 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1446th, between Bernada (24) and Clementine (24).
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#1444 Belinda24
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#1445 Bernada24
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#1446 Bona24
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#1447 Clementine24
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#1448 Cécile24