Jola
Jola grows out of Jolanta, its fuller form, with Jolka the version friends use. The Slavic root carries the meaning "violet flower," but almost no one gives the name now, and most Poles have never met a Jola.
Jola Pronunciation
Jola is pronounced YO-lah (/ˈjɔla/).
What Jola means
Where Jola comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jola sits close to Jolanta, its fuller form, and to Jolka, the diminutive that friends reach for. The variant Yolana travels alongside them. The given root is Slavic, and the meaning handed down is "violet flower," the small purple bloom that opens early in spring.
That flower meaning attached itself to the name over time rather than sitting at the start of it. Jolanta reached Poland through medieval courts. A thirteenth-century bearer, Blessed Jolanta, married the Piast duke Bolesław the Pious and later joined a Poor Clares convent.
On a school class register the name lands in one clean syllable. A teacher reads "Jola" and moves on. The fuller Jolanta waits on the official urząd form, while Jolka answers among friends.
Girls named Jola share a name-day in June with every Jolanta. The short meaning stays "violet flower," kwiat fiołka in Polish.
How many people are named Jola
1 in 140024 women in Poland is named Jola. 161 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2545 among female names.
Jola as a middle name
Jola is a first name for 161 women in Poland and a middle name for another 114, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 620th, between Frida (114) and Valeria (114).
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#618 Stela115
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#619 Frida114
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#620 Jola114
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#621 Valeria114
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#622 Elise113