Yolana
Just 37 women in Poland carry it, so most people have never met one. A Hebrew name meaning "violet flower", it sits close to Jolanta and its short forms Jola and Jolka.
Yolana Pronunciation
Yolana is pronounced ih-o-LAH-nah (/ɨɔˈlana/).
What Yolana means
Where Yolana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yolana traces back to a Hebrew root, and its short meaning is the violet flower. In Polish records the name settles into Jolanta, with Jola and Jolka as the everyday diminutives. A girl called Jolanta on a school register may sign herself Jola by the second week.
The violet sense links the name to the flower called fiołek, small and low to the ground. That meaning traveled with variants like Violante and Yolande across medieval Europe. Historians point to Jolenta of Poland, a 13th-century duchess and later a beata, as an early bearer of the Polish form.
Yolana keeps the soft opening vowel while dropping the harder Polish -nta ending. The name stays small. It reads as a lighter cousin of Jolanta, where Jolka fits a child and Jola stays useful for a whole life.
How many people are named Yolana
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Yolana. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6532 among female names.