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Apolonia

Apolonia reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 4,003, and has been recorded 1,084 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,133rd. About 590 Apolonias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Apolonia

By the numbers

Total US births
1,084
Estimated living today
590
Median age today
30
Peak year
1990
Best rank
4,003rd
Rank in 2025
7,133rd
First recorded
1885

How old the living Apolonias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,084 babies given the name since 1885, about 590 are alive — 54 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Apolonia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Apolonia is most concentrated in Texas (10.6×), California (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Apolonia peaked:

All the names of 1990

Apolonia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland girls Apolonia 4,982 birth registrations 58th
England and Wales girls Apolonia 99 2,706th
France girls Apolonia 15 7,025th
Ireland girls Apolonia 4 768th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Apolonia: rank by region

In 2025, Apolonia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Apolonia 66 31
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Apolonia 74 13
Lubelskie Apolonia 50 24
Lubuskie Apolonia 100 4
Łódzkie Apolonia 51 33
Małopolskie Apolonia 64 42
Mazowieckie Apolonia 48 110
Opolskie Apolonia 53 12
Podkarpackie Apolonia 61 21
Podlaskie Apolonia 51 17
Pomorskie Apolonia 52 41
Śląskie Apolonia 70 33
Świętokrzyskie Apolonia 48 13
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Apolonia 49 21
Wielkopolskie Apolonia 67 36
Zachodniopomorskie Apolonia 56 17

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Apolonia among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands girls Apolonia 1,909 4,905
the Netherlands boys Apolonia 53
Finland girls Apolonia 10

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Apolonia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,889 women called Apolonia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Balears, Illes Apolonia 609 0.971 150
Ciudad Real Apolonia 88 0.353 327
Murcia Apolonia 132 0.167 520
Huelva Apolonia 43 0.158 557
Jaén Apolonia 47 0.151 450
Toledo Apolonia 49 0.130 640

Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Apolonia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.