Iwona
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ivɔna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iwona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 166(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K
- USUnited States1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- 1 in 166 (inferred from the name graph)
230,870 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Iwona is read(measured from records)
Iwona is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish77%
a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Iwona in English.
- German5.2%
weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iwona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #60 | 230,870 | 1 in 166 | 231K | Iwona | 201 |
| US United States | — | 2,665 | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Iwona | 232 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Iwona | 123 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Iwona | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 979 | 1 in 10K | 979 | Iwona | 33 |
| NO Norway | — | 607 | 1 in 9K | 1.7K | Iwona | 32 |
| IE Ireland | #662 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Iwona | 40 |
| IS Iceland | — | 151 | 1 in 2.3K | 151 | — | — |
230,870 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Iwona is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Iwona kan vara en polsk form av → Yvonne.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińskab. 1941PLPolish politician (1941–2024)
- Iwona Bielskab. 1952PLPolish actress
- Iwona Blazwickb. 1955GBBritish art critic
- Iwona Kuczyńskab. 1961PLPolish tennis player
- Iwona Fornalczykb. 1964PLPolish actress
- Iwona Guzowskab. 1974PLPolish sportsperson
- Monika Michaliszynb. 1974PLnot in their usual namePolish philologist, translator and diplomat
- Iwona Marcinkiewiczb. 1975PLPolish archer
- Iwona Petryb. 1975PLPolish actress and model
- Sylwia Spurekb. 1976PLnot in their usual namePolish politician (born 1976)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 231K | #27 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 231K | #27 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,108 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,208 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 979 | #1,720 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 710 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 709 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 707 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 706 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 704 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 689 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 667 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iwona mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Iwona?
- A machine transcription gives /ivɔna/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Iwona a male or female name?
- Iwona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Iwona?
- In the etymology graph, Yvonne, Yvette and Lavonne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Iwona have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 231 thousand people named Iwona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iwona.
- Where is Iwona most common?
- Iwona is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 166 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Iwona?
- In Poland, the national register counted 230,870 people named Iwona in 2026, about 1 in 166 residents.
- How common is Iwona compared with other names?
- In Poland, Iwona is the 60th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iwonaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Iwona” — the 60th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.