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Apollonia

#4,769 in 2025Girls' name

To save, through Ἀπολλωνία

Apollonia has been given to 718 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #4,769 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Apollonia, 2025

1 in 118,000

Apollonia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apollonia: meaning, origin, and history

To save, through Ἀπολλωνία

Ancient Greek

What Apollonia means

Apollonia belongs to the name family reached through Apollonia → Ἀπολλωνία. Its meaning is “to save”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Apollōnia, from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλωνία (Apollōnía).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Apollonia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Apollonia is used in English, Faroese, French and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Apollonia comes through Latin Apollōnia and Ancient Greek Ἀπολλωνία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ἀπολλωνία.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Apollonia is pronounced /a.pɔ.lɔ.nja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 718 girls were recorded with the name Apollonia between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,435 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,877 in 2020 to #4,769 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,299 in 2015 to #4,769 in 2025.

How common is Apollonia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,769
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apollonia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apollonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apollonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apollonia was born before 2006 — so the typical Apollonia is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
692
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Apollonia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,422
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,108
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+530
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.8%
Peak was 1985 (67)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,435
1895

Spellings of Apollonia

Apollonia is not the most common spelling — Apolonia is, with 60.2% against Apollonia's 39.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Apollonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Apollonia was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 571,637 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Apollonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Apollonia around the world

Where Apollonia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #3,657
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Apollonia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,108
Best rank ever
#1,435
1895
Peak year
1985
67 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
718
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Apollonia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Apollonia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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