Abdon
Only a handful of Polish men carry it, and the registers show no newborns this century. From Hebrew, the name reads plainly: servant.
Abdon Pronunciation
Abdon is pronounced AHB-don (/ˈabdɔn/).
What Abdon means
Where Abdon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Abdon comes from Hebrew. The root is 'abad, meaning to serve, and the name reads plainly as servant. Polish holds the same idea in its word for the name's sense, sługa.
The Book of Judges hands the name to a ruler. Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, appears in chapter twelve as one of the judges of Israel, credited with forty sons, and buried in the hill country of Ephraim (Judges 12:13-15). Centuries later it belonged to a Persian nobleman, Saint Abdon, martyred with his companion Sennen under the emperor Decius. Polish calendars still fix his imieniny on 30 July.
On a school register the name is rare, and a teacher may pause before the first syllable. Few Polish boys carry it now. What holds steady is the meaning: servant, sługa.
When Abdon celebrates name day
Abdon appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Abdon
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Abdon. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21994 among male names.
Abdon as a middle name
Abdon is a first name for 6 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3221st, between Abdo (9) and Abdulaziz (9).
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#3219 Ângelo10
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#3220 Abdo9
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#3221 Abdon9
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#3222 Abdulaziz9
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#3223 Abid9