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Tola

Once just a pet name for Antonina, Tola now stands on its own. It's a rare pick, given only to girls, and to fewer of them each year since a peak in the 2010s.

Tola Pronunciation

Tola is pronounced TO-lah (/ˈtɔla/).

Alive in 2025
2,526
Newborns 2025
89
National rank
#636
Meaning & Origin

What Tola means

Where Tola comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Tola began as a short form of Antonina, the name a family reaches for when the full one feels too long for a small child. It belongs to the same set as Antosia and Tosia, other diminutives that soften Antonina into something easy to call across a room. The clipped first syllable and the ending in -a follow a familiar Slavic habit of shortening a name down to its warmest part.

For most of its life Tola has traveled beside its parent name rather than apart from it. On an official form at the urząd a girl might sign Antonina, while at home and in a school register she answers to Tola. The variant Antanina and the masculine Antoni sit nearby in the same family, showing how one root spreads across genders and spellings.

The short meaning is plain: a diminutive of Antonina. A name can be small. It still stands as a full entry on any list of Polish girls' names, right between Tosia and Antosia.

How many

How many people are named Tola

1 in 8925 women in Poland is named Tola. 2,526 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #636 among female names.

Living Tolas · 2019 → 2025
2,526 +882 since 2019
+82 2020
+187 2021
+179 2022
+180 2023
+128 2024
+126 2025
Trend

Tola's popularity over time

89 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #264 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

89 newborn Tolas in 2025
national rank #264 that year
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Regions

Where Tola is most popular

Tola is most popular in Lower Silesian, 36% above the national average (97 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+36%) and Łódź (+30%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Subcarpathian, 77% and 42% below average respectively.

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Middle name

Tola as a middle name

Tola is a first name for 2,526 women in Poland and a middle name for another 152, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 536th, between Therese (153) and Flora (150).

As a first name
2,526
As a middle name
152
first name · 94% middle name · 6%
Middle-name ranking · women

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