Amon
From Hebrew, meaning "the hidden one". The name lives up to it: only 29 men in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Amon Pronunciation
Amon is pronounced AH-mon (/ˈamɔn/).
What Amon means
Where Amon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Amon comes from Hebrew, and its oldest bearer sits in the Hebrew Bible. Amon was a king of Judah, son of Manasseh, whose reign the Second Book of Kings sets down in a few verses. He took the throne at twenty-two and held it for two years. His own courtiers killed him. The root is Hebrew.
The English gloss, "the hidden one," did not begin there. That sense belongs to the Egyptian god Amun, whose name was read as "the hidden." Over centuries the two names sat close enough for the meaning to drift toward the Hebrew Amon. The reading of "hidden" was fastened to the name later. It did not come from the first root.
In a Polish class register, Amon lands near the top, short and quick to call. It carries no fixed imieniny and no soft diminutive. What stays is the plain Hebrew form and its borrowed meaning: ukryty, the hidden one.
When Amon celebrates name day
Amon appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 1 September.
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 Amon
1 in 736075 men in Poland is named Amon. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7601 among male names.
Amon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Amon as a middle name
Amon is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1842nd, between Aleksi (22) and Anas (22).
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#1840 Aki̇f22
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#1841 Aleksi22
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#1842 Amon22
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#1843 Anas22
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#1844 Ariusz22