Iwona
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iwona is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne.
- PLPoland1 in 166◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 52K
- USUnited States1 in 125K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈236K ●
- Sources
- 214 ●
- 1 in 166 ◐
across 12 countries
51K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #63 | 230,870△ | 34K rec. | 1 in 166 | 231K | Iwona | 189 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,994 | 2.9K rec. | — | listed | Iwona | 111 |
| US United States | — | 2,665 | 11K rec. | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Iwona | 214 |
| SE Sweden | — | 979△ | 357 rec. | 1 in 10K | 979 | Iwona | 32 |
| IT Italy | — | 623 | 600 rec. | — | listed | Iwona | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | 607△ | 224 rec. | 1 in 9K | 1.7K | Iwona | 32 |
| CA Canada | — | 457 | 403 rec. | — | — | Iwona | 58 |
| IE Ireland | #626 | 320 | 277 rec. | — | — | Iwona | 36 |
| DK Denmark | — | 262 | — | 1 in 22K | 262 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 191 | — | 1 in 1.8K | 191 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 163 | 370 rec. | 1 in 307K | 163 | Iwona | 59 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 63 | 1 rec. | — | — | Iwona | 6 |
Roughly 231K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 166). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.1M97%
- English14K1%
- German7.9K1%
- French3K1%
- Spanish1.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,123,872 | 97% |
| English | 14,440 | 1% |
| German | 7,935 | 1% |
| French | 2,970 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,762 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Iwona 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 Swedish, Iwona kan vara en polsk form av → Yvonne.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 11 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 16 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 19 |
| 1970 | 19 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 29 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 23 |
| 1975 | 28 |
| 1976 | 20 |
| 1977 | 20 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 24 |
| 1980 | 22 |
| 1981 | 19 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 18 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1994 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 35 years between 1958–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 35 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 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 218 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Iwona?
- We estimate roughly 236 thousand people bear Iwona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Iwona have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 231 thousand people bear Iwona in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Iwona compared with other names?
- In Poland, Iwona is the 63rd most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Iwona mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Yvonne
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 63rd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.