Teona
Greek at root, from a word for "goddess" or "divine". Still rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though it's been turning up more on newborn girls in the past few years.
Teona Pronunciation
Teona is pronounced te-O-nah (/tɛˈɔna/).
What Teona means
Where Teona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Teona reaches back to Greek, to theos, the word for god, and to thea, its feminine form, goddess. The short meaning follows plainly: divine. This root is a generous one, and it seats Teona beside Teodora, Teodor, and Dorota, names all built on the same theos. The same root sounds in the word theology. Here the meaning and the origin agree: divine is the plain sense of theos, not a gloss added afterward.
On a Polish class register the name stands out, short and unusual among the Zuzannas and Julias. Teona stays rare here, more familiar in Georgia and in Greece, where forms of it have been in use for generations. A girl who carries it holds a word older than either country.
That older word is theos, and the sense it hands down is simply this: goddess, divine.
When Teona celebrates name day
Teona appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 January.
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 Teona
1 in 62796 women in Poland is named Teona. 359 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1585 among female names.
Teona's popularity over time
10 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #715 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where Teona is most popular
Teona is most popular in Lubusz, 296% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+177%) and Lower Silesian (+150%). It is least common in Greater Poland, 9% below average.
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Lubusz2 girls born+296%
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Masovian10 girls born+177%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+150%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+133%
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Łódź2 girls born+55%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−9%
Teona as a middle name
Teona is a first name for 359 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4449th, between Teodoria (4) and Teresita (4).
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#4447 Tawananyasha4
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#4448 Teodoria4
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#4449 Teona4
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#4450 Teresita4
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#4451 Terézia4