Zenonia
Barely 28 women in all of Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it so far this century. From the Greek for "belonging to Zeus".
Zenonia Pronunciation
Zenonia is pronounced ze-NO-nyah (/zɛˈnɔɲa/).
What Zenonia means
Where Zenonia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zenonia comes from Greek. It is the feminine form of Zenon, a name assembled from Zeus, whose genitive stem seeded a whole family of Greek names. The short meaning holds to that source: belonging to Zeus.
Zenon was carried by real people. Zeno of Elea set out his paradoxes in the fifth century BC, and Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school in Athens around 300 BC. Zenonia leans on the same root, though it takes a Latinate feminine ending that Polish readers will know from Antonia or Apolonia.
The name reads as rare and formal. On a Polish class register it would sit apart from the Zuzannas and Julias, and its origin needs no unpacking. Belonging to Zeus is the plain sense of the Greek, not a gloss added later. The Polish keeps it exact: należąca do Zeusa.
How many people are named Zenonia
1 in 805137 women in Poland is named Zenonia. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7974 among female names.
Zenonia as a middle name
Zenonia is a first name for 28 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4503rd, between Zenith (4) and Zhasmin (4).
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#4501 Zelal4
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#4502 Zenith4
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#4503 Zenonia4
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#4504 Zhasmin4
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#4505 Zineb4