Hipolita
Vanishingly rare in Poland: just seven women carry it, and no girls were named Hipolita last year. It comes from Greek, joining *hippos*, "horse", with a verb for setting loose, so the old reading is "freer of horses".
Hipolita Pronunciation
Hipolita is pronounced khee-po-LEE-tah (/xipɔˈlita/).
What Hipolita means
Where Hipolita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hipolita comes from Greek. It joins hippos, meaning horse, with a verb for loosening or setting loose, so the old reading is "freer of horses". The masculine variant Hipolit stands right beside it, built from the same root.
Greek myth handed the name a famous bearer. Hippolyta ruled the Amazons, and Shakespeare later placed her in A Midsummer Night's Dream, betrothed to Theseus of Athens. Since the Amazons fought on horseback, the horse inside her name fit her well.
A Christian bearer fixed the name in the calendar. Hippolytus of Rome, a third-century martyr, gives the name its imieniny on 13 August, which happens to be today. A girl called Hipolita will one day find that date in a parish list of patrons, printed next to the older sense of the name, "freer of horses".
When Hipolita celebrates name day
Hipolita appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 February.
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 Hipolita
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Hipolita. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #20575 among female names.
Hipolita as a middle name
Hipolita is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2986th, between Hilde (7) and Honey (7).
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#2984 Helin7
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#2985 Hilde7
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#2986 Hipolita7
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#2987 Honey7
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#2988 Honora7