Entry № 806 · Greek origin

Apollonia Apollonia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-poh-LOH-nee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Of Apollo"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "of apollo".

Apollonia is the Greek feminine of Apollonios — "of Apollo," the Greek god of light, music, and prophecy. Saint Apollonia of Alexandria (d. 249) was a 3rd-century virgin-martyr — patron saint of dentistry (her teeth were broken in martyrdom).

Apollonia Vitelli is the Sicilian first wife of Michael Corleone in The Godfather.

Of Apollo. Patron of dentistry.

The name in its native script.

Ἀπολλωνία
Transliteration
Apollōnía
Pronunciation
/ ˌæp.əˈloʊ.ni.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Apollonia stands.

Apollonia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Apollonias before her.

Real people
Saint Apollonia
Patron saint of dentistry.
d. 249
Apollonia Kotero
American singer (Prince protégée).
born 1959
In fiction
Apollonia Vitelli
Michael Corleone's first wife.
The Godfather, 1972

Names connected to Apollonia.

The number behind Apollonia.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Apollonia reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.