Iwonna
Its root reaches back to a Hebrew name, though the sense that stuck is "yew tree". Fewer than a thousand Polish women carry this spelling, and none have been given it in recent years: most Poles have never met one.
Iwonna Pronunciation
Iwonna is pronounced ee-VON-nah (/iˈvɔnna/).
What Iwonna means
Where Iwonna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iwonna is a fuller spelling of a name most people in Poland write as Iwona. Drop a letter and you have the everyday variant. Add a soft ending and you reach Iwonka, the form a grandmother reaches for. Its origin is given as Hebrew, and its meaning as the yew tree, drzewo cisowe in Polish.
The yew is a slow tree. It can live for many centuries, and old churchyards across Europe still shelter specimens older than the walls beside them. To read that meaning into Iwonna is to tie the name to something rooted and dark green, a wood that outlasts the people who plant it.
In Poland the name-day comes round on 19 May. Picture the school register read out that morning, an Iwona answering to her surname while the diminutive waits for less formal use. The name stays what it has been: Iwona in full, Iwonka for affection.
How many people are named Iwonna
1 in 26870 women in Poland is named Iwonna. 839 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1033 among female names.
Iwonna as a middle name
Iwonna is a first name for 839 women in Poland and a middle name for another 305, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 388th, between Katherine (306) and Beatriz (303).
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