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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/).

Related names
Léon Lolek
Alive in 2025
271
Newborns 2025
4
National rank
#1849
Next name day
11 April
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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.

Next name day
11 April
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 168 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Leona

1 in 83188 women in Poland is named Leona. 271 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1849 among female names.

People with the name Leona 2019 → 2025
271 −13 since 2019
2020 278 −6
2021 271 −7
2022 267 −4
2023 269 +2
2024 270 +1
2025 271 +1

Leona's popularity over time

4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1083 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.

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4 newborns with the name Leona in 2025
national rank #1083 that year

Where parents choose Leona

Leona is most popular in Lubusz, 522% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+195%) and Masovian (+118%).

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +522%
    1 in 24,829 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +195%
    1 in 52,378 babies
  • Masovian
    +118%
    1 in 70,853 babies

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).

As a first name
271
As a middle name
188
first name 59% middle name 41%
Middle-name ranking women

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