Zonia
A Slavic name close to running out: just 47 women in Poland carry it, and no girls were born with it last year. At its root it means "belt, girdle".
Zonia Pronunciation
Zonia is pronounced ZO-nyah (/ˈzɔɲa/).
What Zonia means
Where Zonia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zonia belongs to the same family as Zofia. On an ordinary day she answers to Zosia, while Sofia stands as the wider variant. The origin is Slavic.
The short meaning recorded here is "belt, girdle." That reading matches the Greek zōnē, the band a person tied at the waist. A belt gathers a garment and holds it close to the body. The word names a practical thing before it names anything grander.
In Polish the name is glossed as życie, life. That sense fastened onto the name later, drawn from its sound rather than dug from its root. You can test this against the imieniny calendar, where Zonia sits near Zofia and Zosia. In a school register she signs herself Zosia. The form that outlasts the rest is Zofia, and beside it the old gloss holds firm: "belt, girdle."
How many people are named Zonia
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Zonia. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5588 among female names.
Zonia as a middle name
Zonia is a first name for 47 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2122nd, between Yến (13) and Zoé (13).
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#2120 Yolanta13
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#2121 Yến13
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#2122 Zonia13
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#2123 Zoé13
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#2124 Zoë13