Entry № 4734 · Other origin

Iwona Iwona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-VOH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Yvonne (Polish + Gombrowicz Iwona Princess of Burgundy)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Polish)

A name that means "yvonne (polish + gombrowicz iwona princess of burgundy)".

Iwona is from the Polish Iwona — Polish rendition of Yvonne — from the Old French diminutive of Yves (Germanic Iwo, yew tree). Iwona is one of the Polish feminine names.

Yew tree (Polish-French).

The name in its native script.

Iwona
Transliteration
Iwona
Pronunciation
/ iːˈvoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iwona stands.

Iwona 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.

Iwonas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iwona (Gombrowicz)
Gombrowicz's 1938 absurdist theater heroine.
1938

Names connected to Iwona.

The number behind Iwona.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iwona reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.