Leona
Straight from Latin, the feminine of Leo: lioness, no metaphor to unpack. It stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and every bearer on record is a girl.
Leona Pronunciation
Leona is pronounced le-O-nah (/lɛˈɔna/).
What Leona means
Where Leona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leona grows straight out of Latin, the feminine of Leo, the lion. Its short meaning stays plain: lioness, or lwica in Polish. The masculine variant Léon travels beside it, and the affectionate diminutive Lolek belongs to the same set of lion-names.
The Romans used Leo as a byname long before it became the name of saints and popes, and the feminine form kept the same root without blunting it. A woman called Leona wears the lioness directly. There is no metaphor to decode.
Read a Polish class register and Leona will sit near Lena and Leokadia, though its meaning runs more literal than theirs. The lion stays visible in the first three letters. Whatever else a bearer becomes, the name still says lioness, lwica.
When Leona celebrates name day
Leona appears 19 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 11 April.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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in 138 days26 JanuaryTuesday in 2027
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in 149 days6 FebruarySaturday in 2027
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in 163 days20 FebruarySaturday in 2027
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in 172 days1 MarchMonday in 2027
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in 185 days14 MarchSunday in 2027
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in 221 days19 AprilMonday in 2027
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in 224 days22 AprilThursday in 2027
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in 257 days25 MayTuesday in 2027
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in 275 days12 JuneSaturday in 2027
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in 291 days28 JuneMonday in 2027
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in 293 days30 JuneWednesday in 2027
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in 296 days3 JulySaturday in 2027
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in 305 days12 JulyMonday in 2027
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in 310 days17 JulySaturday in 2027
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in 313 days20 JulyTuesday in 2027
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today10 SeptemberThursday in 2026
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in 30 days10 OctoberSaturday in 2026
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in 61 days10 NovemberTuesday in 2026
How many people are named Leona
1 in 83188 women in Poland is named Leona. 271 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1849 among female names.
Leona's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1083 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where Leona is most popular
Leona is most popular in Lubusz, 522% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+195%) and Masovian (+118%).
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Lubusz2 girls born+522%
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Lower Silesian3 girls born+195%
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Masovian5 girls born+118%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+43%
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Silesian2 girls born+36%
Leona as a middle name
Leona is a first name for 271 women in Poland and a middle name for another 188, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 493rd, between Dagna (188) and Lilly (188).
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#491 Ariana188
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#492 Dagna188
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#493 Leona188
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#494 Lilly188
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#495 Ludomira187