Orsolya
One of Poland's rarest names: only around 25 women carry it, and no girls have been given it in years. Latin at root, it means "little bear".
Orsolya Pronunciation
Orsolya is pronounced or-so-LIH-ah (/ɔrsɔˈlɨa/).
What Orsolya means
Where Orsolya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orsolya is the Hungarian form of Ursula. Its root is Latin. In that language ursa means she-bear, and the diminutive ursula means little bear. A Polish reader meets it as niedźwiedziczka.
A real woman gave the name its long life. Saint Ursula, venerated since the Middle Ages, drew a following large enough that a teaching order took her name. The Ursulines, founded by Angela Merici in 1535, still run schools, and their convents reached Polish towns centuries ago.
In Hungary the name-day for Orsolya falls on 21 October, the feast of Saint Ursula. A Polish class register might hold a single Orsolya, the spelling marking a Hungarian border. Under the letters sits the Latin ursa, and the meaning stays little bear.
How many people are named Orsolya
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Orsolya. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8601 among female names.
Orsolya as a middle name
Orsolya is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2838th, between Onyinyechi (8) and Ozanna (8).
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#2836 Oleńka8
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#2837 Onyinyechi8
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#2838 Orsolya8
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#2839 Ozanna8
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#2840 Panagiota8