Solomiya
A Ukrainian name that was essentially absent from Poland until a few years ago, now given to a small, steady handful of girls each year. It goes back to the Hebrew word for "peace" and sits close to the Polish Salomea.
Solomiya Pronunciation
Solomiya is pronounced so-lom-YIH-ah (/sɔlɔmˈjɨa/).
What Solomiya means
Where Solomiya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Solomiya reaches Ukrainian from Hebrew, from the root shalom, peace. The Polish variant of the same name is Salomea. The short meaning holds steady across both languages: peace, pokój.
The Hebrew root behind it also gave the world Solomon, the king whose name shares that promise. Ukrainian speakers took the feminine line of it and kept it as their own. One bearer made it famous. Solomiya Krushelnytska, born in 1872, was the soprano who rescued Puccini's Madama Butterfly after the audience jeered its premiere at La Scala. She sang a revised version to triumph, and today the Lviv opera house carries her name.
Read down a Ukrainian class register and Solomiya sits plainly among the other names. It reads as peace.
How many people are named Solomiya
1 in 51004 women in Poland is named Solomiya. 442 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1408 among female names.
Solomiya's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #645 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where Solomiya is most popular
Solomiya is most popular in Lower Silesian, 175% above the national average (10 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+135%) and Masovian (+95%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 62% and 60% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian10 girls born+175%
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Pomeranian8 girls born+135%
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Masovian16 girls born+95%
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Lubusz2 girls born+74%
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Lesser Poland6 girls born+14%
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Lublin2 girls born−16%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−28%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−60%
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Silesian2 girls born−62%
Solomiya as a middle name
Solomiya is a first name for 442 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4427th, between Solene (4) and Sorcha (4).
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#4425 Solana4
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#4426 Solene4
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#4427 Solomiya4
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#4428 Sorcha4
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#4429 Souad4