Poliana
Most Poles have never met one, yet a few newborn girls take it each year: a rare name just finding its first footing. Its Slavic root reads as "many graces".
Poliana Pronunciation
Poliana is pronounced pol-YAH-nah (/pɔlˈjana/).
What Poliana means
Where Poliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Poliana comes from Slavic roots. In Polish the name reads as wiele łask, in English as many graces. The word points to favour that does not arrive once and then stop.
Grace here is counted in the plural.
A Slavic ear can catch polana nearby, the forest glade, a real Polish word that sits close in sound. That closeness is a coincidence of the tongue, and the meaning held for the name stays with grace rather than with any clearing in the trees. So the sense of abundance leads, and the greenwood stays out of it.
Picture the September register in a Polish szkoła podstawowa, where Poliana takes its place among the P names and the teacher reads it once, slowly. The name carries no standard zdrobnienie of its own, so what a child answers to is Poliana itself, four syllables of many graces.
When Poliana celebrates name day
Poliana appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 10 September.
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 Poliana
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Poliana. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7360 among female names.
Poliana's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1331 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Where Poliana is most popular
Poliana is most popular in Lower Silesian, 588% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+402%).
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+588%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+402%