Oriona
Fewer than three dozen women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one. It's the feminine of Orion, from Greek, the hunter.
Oriona Pronunciation
Oriona is pronounced or-YO-nah (/ɔrˈjɔna/).
What Oriona means
Where Oriona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oriona grows from Greek roots, out of Orion, the hunter of old myth whom the gods lifted into the stars. That older name belonged to a giant who chased game across the hills. Oriona is his feminine form, and the meaning stays close: hunter.
The constellation still stands over Poland on winter nights, three bright stars marking the belt. A child who learns to find Orion in December already holds half of Oriona. The sky does the teaching.
Read the register in a Polish classroom and the name sits by itself, far from the row of Annas and Zuzannas. It has no name-day of its own in the calendar. What it has instead is the plain sense of the word behind it, feminine of Orion, the hunter.
How many people are named Oriona
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Oriona. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7535 among female names.
Oriona as a middle name
Oriona is a first name for 30 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2108th, between Olenka (13) and Patrícia (13).
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#2106 Muriel13
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#2107 Olenka13
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#2108 Oriona13
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#2109 Patrícia13
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#2110 Prisca13