Polyna
Just 20 women in Poland carry it, and the birth record shows none given this century. A Latin name at root, tied to Apollo the sun god, which is where the reading "sunny" comes from.
Polyna Pronunciation
Polyna is pronounced po-LIH-nah (/pɔˈlɨna/).
What Polyna means
Where Polyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Polyna comes from the Latin Apollonia, built on the name of Apollo, the god the Romans tied to the sun. The short meaning reads plainly: of Apollo. The name opens with a god and a claim of belonging to him.
The Polish gloss is słoneczna, sunlit. That sense arrives through Apollo, who drove the sun across the sky in the old myth. Literally the name says of Apollo. The sun came later, along with the story about its god, and it stayed.
The fuller form is Apolonia, and Pola is the everyday diminutive. Polish calendars mark Apolonia on 9 February, the feast of Saint Apollonia, a martyr of Alexandria. Read a Kraków class register and you may find a Pola two rows above an Apolonia.
How many people are named Polyna
1 in 1127192 women in Poland is named Polyna. 20 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10043 among female names.