Entry № 1572 · Italian origin

Bona Bona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Polish Renaissance queen (Bona Sforza)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "polish renaissance queen (bona sforza)".

Bona is from the Latin bona ("good"). Bona Sforza (1494-1557) was the Milanese-born Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania — wife of Sigismund I the Old. She brought the Italian Renaissance to Poland along with skilled gardeners, architects, and cooks (introducing Italian vegetables — modern Polish włoszczyzna still means "Italian things").

Featured in Polish Renaissance literature.

Polish Renaissance queen (Bona Sforza) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Bona
Transliteration
Bona
Pronunciation
/ ˈboʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bona stands.

Bona 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.

Bonas before her.

Real people
Bona Sforza
Queen of Poland.
1494 – 1557
In fiction
Bona
Polish Renaissance literature.

Names connected to Bona.

The number behind Bona.

5

The Seeker

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