Yolanta
Just 32 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, and no girls have been given it in years. From Greek for "violet", it reads as a rarer take on Jolanta.
Yolanta Pronunciation
Yolanta is pronounced ih-o-LAHN-tah (/ɨɔˈlanta/).
What Yolanta means
Where Yolanta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yolanta comes from Greek. The older forms, Yolande and Iolanthe, reach back to "ion", the Greek word for violet, joined to "anthos", meaning flower. The short meaning follows plainly: violet, the small spring bloom Poles call fiołek. The bloom is modest.
In Poland the name travels mostly under its variant, Jolanta. Open a class register in a Polish school and Jolanta will outnumber Yolanta many times over. Both spellings hold the same root and the same violet.
One Jolanta stands early in the country's record. Jolenta of Poland, a thirteenth-century duchess later beatified, bore the name long before it reached ordinary birth certificates. Her spelling drifted between Jolenta and Jolanta, as such names did. The flower stayed fixed: a violet, fiołek.
How many people are named Yolanta
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Yolanta. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7231 among female names.
Yolanta as a middle name
Yolanta is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2120th, between Yolande (13) and Yến (13).
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#2118 Wally13
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#2119 Yolande13
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#2120 Yolanta13
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#2121 Yến13
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#2122 Zonia13