Orlena
A Slavic name meaning "golden". Only 11 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Orlena Pronunciation
Orlena is pronounced or-LE-nah (/ɔrˈlɛna/).
What Orlena means
Where Orlena comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orlena grows from Slavic soil, and its short meaning is plain. Golden. In Polish that is złota. Slavic tradition long tied gold to worth, the same pull behind names built on the root złoto. The gold root runs across the family, złoto in Polish, zoloto in Russian, from an older shared form. Orlena belongs to that world of colour and metal, a feminine name holding the sense of gold close.
There is no saint called Orlena, so the name keeps no fixed imieniny in the Polish church calendar. A girl who carries it often picks a nearby name-day or lets her birthday do the work. On a school register she can be the only one, set apart from the rows of Zuzanna and Maja.
The meaning stays legible. Golden, złota, a single bright idea handed to whoever wears the name.
How many people are named Orlena
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Orlena. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15369 among female names.
Orlena as a middle name
Orlena is a first name for 11 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3393rd, between Orina (6) and Pratik (6).
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#3391 Onome6
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#3392 Orina6
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#3393 Orlena6
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#3394 Pratik6
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#3395 Princesa6