Given name
Iwona
“a young archer”
In Polish use, Iwona carries the interpretation “a young archer.”
Original PolishIwa
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Polish use, Iwona carries the interpretation “a young archer.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Polish.
How it developed
Iwona is used as a form of Yvonne.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Iwona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 0 boys · 33 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,665 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Iwona’s family of names
In Polish usage, Iwona has a diminutive in Iwa. Iwona is a form of Yvonne. In Polish usage, Iwona has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Yvonne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Iwona has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Polish roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Iwona
- Iwona MarcinkiewiczPolish archerborn 1975
- Iwona MatkowskaOlympic wrestlerborn 1982
- Iwona Śledzińska-KatarasińskaPolish politician (1941–2024)
- Iwona BielskaPolish actressborn 1952
- Iwona ChmielewskaPolish illustratorborn 1960
- Iwona BlecharczykPolish truck driver and business ownerborn 1987
- Iwona LewandowskaPolish sportsperson and athletics competitorborn 1985
- Iwona ArentPolish politicianborn 1968
- Iwona KuczyńskaPolish tennis playerborn 1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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