Apollon
Greek to the core: Apollon is the god of light and archery, though the name's oldest reading is "destroyer", tied to a verb meaning to destroy. Fewer than a dozen men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Apollon Pronunciation
Apollon is pronounced ah-POL-lon (/aˈpɔllɔn/).
What Apollon means
Where Apollon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Apollon is the Greek Ἀπόλλων, the name of the god of light, music, and archery. Its short meaning in English is destroyer, in Polish niszczyciel. The destroyer sense is old. In Plato's Cratylus, a speaker ties the name to the Greek verb apollymi, meaning to destroy.
The god's arrows brought plague before they brought cures, and that dark reading clung to his name. Yet the deeper root of Apollon stays debated among scholars. The meaning of destroyer sits on the name as an ancient interpretation rather than a proven origin.
Apollon carries no Polish diminutives or variants. It comes as one form. On a school register in Poland, it would stand among names like Jakub and Antoni, unmistakable at roll call. The name a boy signs on an urząd form is Apollon, and behind it stands the Greek destroyer, niszczyciel.
When Apollon celebrates name day
Apollon appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 January.
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 Apollon
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Apollon. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #22174 among male names.
Apollon as a middle name
Apollon is a first name for 6 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7206th, between Apollinaire (2) and Apolo (2).
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#7204 Anuradha2
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#7205 Apollinaire2
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#7206 Apollon2
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#7207 Apolo2
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#7208 Appa2