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Apolonia

#7,170 in 2025Girls' name

To save, through Ἀπολλωνία

Apolonia has been given to 1,084 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #7,170 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Apolonia, 2025

1 in 221,000

Apolonia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apolonia: meaning, origin, and history

To save, through Ἀπολλωνία

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Apolonia means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Apolonia is used in Cebuano, Polish and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Apollonia, Apolonio and Ἀπολλωνία.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Apolonia is pronounced /a.pɔˈlɔɲ.ja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,084 girls were recorded with the name Apolonia between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,053 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,622 in 2020 to #7,170 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,998 in 2015 to #7,170 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Apolonia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,170
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apolonia 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apolonia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apolonias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apolonia was born before 1954 — so the typical Apolonia is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
558
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Choose a decade

1920s — 15.2% of all recorded uses (165).

Is Apolonia 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
−205
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,452
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,828
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 1990 (25)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,053
1885

Spellings of Apolonia

Apolonia is the most-used spelling, taking 60.2% of the 1,802 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Apolonia is used

Across 1910–2025, Apolonia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 103,492 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 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. Apolonia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Apolonia around the world

Where Apolonia 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
    2007–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2012
    #768
    in 2012
  • France
    2012–2023
    #7,025
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Apolonia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,170
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,452
Best rank ever
#1,053
1885
Peak year
1990
25 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,084
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Apolonia

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

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Sibling names for Apolonia

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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