Zenona
Around 6,000 Polish women carry it, and hardly any are being born now. The feminine form of Zenon, from the Greek for "of Zeus".
Zenona Pronunciation
Zenona is pronounced ze-NO-nah (/zɛˈnɔna/).
What Zenona means
Where Zenona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zenona comes from Greek. It is the feminine form of Zenon, a name built on Zeus, whose genitive Zēnos let the ancient Greeks mark something as belonging to the god. Polish keeps that idea in the short meaning, dar Zeusa, the gift of Zeus.
The masculine Zenon reached modern speakers worn by real minds. Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school in Athens around 300 BCE, and Zeno of Elea left paradoxes that still trouble students of logic. Zenona takes the same root and turns it toward a woman.
Picture a school class register where the teacher reads Zenona and one girl answers. The name is uncommon now. That rarity marks her out on any official form at the urząd, next to a page of repeated Annas. Behind her name sits Zenon, its close variant, and behind Zenon sits the genitive of Zeus.
When Zenona celebrates name day
Zenona appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 April.
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 Zenona
1 in 3664 women in Poland is named Zenona. 6,152 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #446 among female names.
Zenona as a middle name
Zenona is a first name for 6,152 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3,020, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 171st, between Ryszarda (3,030) and Jowita (2,993).
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#169 Sonia3,110
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#170 Ryszarda3,030
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#171 Zenona3,020
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#172 Jowita2,993
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#173 Feliksa2,892