Zoriana
A Ukrainian name meaning dawn, with the sense of the morning star. Most Poles have never met one: only a few thousand women here carry it, and nearly all arrived in the last decade or so.
Zoriana Pronunciation
Zoriana is pronounced zor-YAH-nah (/zɔrˈjana/).
What Zoriana means
Where Zoriana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zoriana rises from the Slavic word zorya, the name for dawn and for the morning star that appears just before it. The form is Ukrainian, and it has stayed close to that root. A Polish ear catches zorza and jutrznia inside it, the first pale light of the day.
In older Slavic belief the Zorya were sky sisters who unlocked the morning and shut the night behind it. Zoriana grew from the same word. The name carries no common Polish diminutive, so it arrives whole, with nothing worn down.
Picture a school register on the first day of term. A teacher meets Zoriana among the Zofias and Zuzannas, pauses once, then reads it clearly. What the name gives back is plain enough: dawn, and the morning star that opens it.
How many people are named Zoriana
1 in 6964 women in Poland is named Zoriana. 3,237 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #574 among female names.
Zoriana's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #985 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018. Still the #574 name among living women, even as it slips to #985 among newborns.
Where Zoriana is most popular
Zoriana is most popular in Lower Silesian, 213% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+174%) and West Pomeranian (+133%).
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Lower Silesian5 girls born+213%
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Greater Poland6 girls born+174%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+133%
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Łódź2 girls born+55%
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Lesser Poland3 girls born+30%
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Masovian4 girls born+11%
Zoriana as a middle name
Zoriana is a first name for 3,237 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2510th, between Zena (10) and Zygryda (10).
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#2508 Yeon10
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#2509 Zena10
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#2510 Zoriana10
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#2511 Zygryda10
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#2512 Éva10