Solomiia
A recent arrival that took off in the early 2020s: after years of a handful of girls, over a hundred now get it each year. Carried almost entirely within Poland's Ukrainian community, it comes from Hebrew for "peace".
Solomiia Pronunciation
Solomiia is pronounced so-LOMY-yah (/sɔˈlɔmjja/).
What Solomiia means
Where Solomiia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Solomiia reaches Ukrainian from much older ground. Its root is the Hebrew word shalom, peace, the same root that stands behind the name of King Solomon. So the short meaning stays plain: peace, peaceful. The name kept that sense as it moved east and settled among Ukrainian families, holding the single full form Solomiia with no diminutive beside it.
Ukraine gave the name a face. Solomiya Krushelnytska, born in Galicia in 1872, became one of the great sopranos of her generation and sang Salome and Madama Butterfly across Europe. Her fame helped fix the form in the region, and the name has stayed close to Ukrainian speech since.
Read from a class register in a Polish school today, Solomiia usually marks a child of a Ukrainian family, a name filled in on the urząd forms of parents who arrived in recent years. It travels light. There is no nickname to soften it and no masculine twin to answer it. The name arrives whole, and it still means what shalom meant at the start: peace.
How many people are named Solomiia
1 in 4170 women in Poland is named Solomiia. 5,412 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #470 among female names.
Solomiia's popularity over time
123 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #232 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.
Where Solomiia is most popular
Solomiia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 141% above the national average (64 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+79%) and Łódź (+45%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Lublin, 84% and 83% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian64 girls born+141%
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Lubusz15 girls born+79%
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Łódź31 girls born+45%
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West Pomeranian18 girls born+26%
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Masovian75 girls born+25%
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Greater Poland41 girls born+13%
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Pomeranian24 girls born−4%
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Silesian36 girls born−6%
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Lesser Poland35 girls born−9%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian13 girls born−30%
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Opole3 girls born−61%
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Subcarpathian5 girls born−75%
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Lublin3 girls born−83%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−84%
Solomiia as a middle name
Solomiia is a first name for 5,412 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2207th, between Sinéad (12) and Stacey (12).
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#2205 Sidonia12
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#2206 Sinéad12
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#2207 Solomiia12
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#2208 Stacey12
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#2209 Stephania12