Ivona
A Slavic name tracing back to the yew tree. It's a rare spelling of Iwona: fewer than 150 women in Poland carry this version, so most people here have never met one.
Ivona Pronunciation
What Ivona means
Where Ivona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Ivona grows from a Slavic root tied to the yew, the dark evergreen that Poland calls cis. The meaning has stayed close to the tree ever since. A girl named Ivona carries the old word for yew.
In Poland the name is more often written Iwona, and that variant sits beside Ivona on class registers and official forms at the urząd. The yew behind the name is a tree of long memory. It can live for many centuries, and its wood once shaped hunting bows.
Iwona keeps her imieniny on 23 May. On that morning a teacher might read the name aloud from the register and the class turns to look. The name-day marks her, briefly, above the rest.
Two spellings, one meaning. Ivona and Iwona both point back to cis, the yew.
How many people are named Ivona
1 in 163361 women in Poland is named Ivona. 138 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2803 among female names.
Ivona's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ivona as a middle name
Ivona is a first name for 138 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1917th, between Inocenta (15) and Jael (15).
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#1915 Halima15
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#1916 Inocenta15
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#1917 Ivona15
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#1918 Jael15
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#1919 Jessie15