Message: "Pola" - Behind the Name

Pola

by ADT

1/30/2011, 11:46 AM

I'm wondering about the meaning and ethnicity of Pola (f). I've come across these two actresses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Negri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Raksa

#Pola

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- Orsino (bananarama) +1

1/30/2011, 12:29 PM

Pola is probably a Polish diminutive of Apolonia, both in the cases of Pola Negri and Pola Raksa.

- ADT

1/30/2011, 1:39 PM

Thank you. That's what I thought it was.

- Rene +3

1/30/2011, 12:24 PM

Pola is the Polish variant of Paula.

Looks as it is rather popular right now - in a hitparade of the names for newborns in Warshaw it ranked #19 in 2008.

- Kirke (guest) +1

2/10/2011, 6:43 AM

Not correct

This is not a Polish variant of Paula. Polish etymological sources say that there is a confusion between the two names because the name Paula is pronounced like Pola in some Polish accents(although in my accent they are quite different). Pola was previously only a nickname for Apolonia(Polish form has on e P) but is now used as an independent name. I know a sibset in Poland of Pola and Ninel.

There is also the similar Polish name Poliana/Polianna. It is not related to the literary name Polyanna. It is the feminine form of the name Polian which is in turn the Polish form of the Roman name Polianus.

- ADT

2/21/2011, 8:21 PM

Okay, thank you so much for this!

- ADT

1/30/2011, 1:37 PM

Thank you!

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