Sydonia
Fewer than a hundred Polish women carry it, around 85, and none has been given the name this century. It comes from the Greek for "from Sidon", the ancient Phoenician port.
Sydonia Pronunciation
Sydonia is pronounced sih-DO-nyah (/sɨˈdɔɲa/).
What Sydonia means
Where Sydonia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sydonia traces back to Sidon, one of the oldest ports on the Phoenician coast, known to the Greeks as Sidṓn. The name means a woman from Sidon. That city, now Saïda in Lebanon, traded in purple dye and glass long before Athens rose. A girl called Sydonia is tied by her name to that shoreline.
The Greek form gave the name its shape. To carry it is to hold a small piece of geography, the memory of a place rather than a virtue or a flower. This sets Sydonia apart from names built on Latin adjectives for character.
The name is rare on Polish registers. A teacher reading a class list in early September might pause at it once. Sydonia has no standard Polish diminutive fixed by custom, so each bearer settles her own short form. The meaning stays plain and geographic: kobieta z Sydonu, a woman from Sidon.
When Sydonia celebrates name day
Sydonia appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 June.
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 Sydonia
1 in 265222 women in Poland is named Sydonia. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3847 among female names.
Sydonia as a middle name
Sydonia is a first name for 85 women in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1322nd, between Sri (29) and Tacjana (29).
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#1320 Scarlet29
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#1321 Sri29
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#1322 Sydonia29
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#1323 Tacjana29
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#1324 Taisa29