Polona
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɔlɔna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Polona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common given name.
- SISlovenia1 in 780(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 325K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 780 (inferred from the name graph)
2,697 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Polona 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.
2,697 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Polona is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, feminine singular of polono
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, essive singular of polo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Polona Vetrihb. 1950SISlovenian actress
- Polona Dornikb. 1962SISlovenian basketball player
- Polona Frelihb. 1970SISlovenian table tennis player
- Polona Juhb. 1971SISlovenian actress
- Polona Zalarb. 1971SItaxonomist
- Polona Lovšinb. 1973SISlovene illustrator and painter
- Polona Reberšakb. 1987SISlovenian tennis player
- Polona Batageljb. 1989SISlovenian racing cyclist
- Polona Hercogb. 1991SISlovenian tennis player
- Polona Baričb. 1992SISlovenian female handball player
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 2.7K | #196 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 2.7K | #102 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 2.7K | #103 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 2.7K | #102 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 2.7K | #104 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 2.7K | #105 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 2.7K | #103 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 2.7K | #101 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 2.7K | #105 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 2.7K | #105 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 2.7K | #104 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 2.7K | #106 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Polona?
- A machine transcription gives /pɔlɔna/ (IPA) for Slovenian.
- Is Polona a male or female name?
- Polona 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 Polona?
- In the etymology graph, Apolonia, Apolline and Apollonia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Apolonija.
- In which country does Polona have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Polona, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled polona.
- Where is Polona most common?
- Polona is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 780 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Polona?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 2,697 people named Polona in 2025, about 1 in 780 residents.
- How common is Polona compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Polona is the 82nd most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Polona?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/polonaThe 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, “Polona” — the 82nd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.