Caspian
Taken from the Caspian Sea, and in Poland it stays genuinely rare: only about 70 people carry it, every one of them male. Most Poles have never met one, and newborns have all but dried up.
Caspian Pronunciation
Caspian is pronounced TSAHSP-yahn (/ˈt͡saspjan/).
What Caspian means
Where Caspian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Caspian comes to us from a body of water, the Caspian Sea, the largest inland sea on earth. The name of the sea traces back to the Caspi, an ancient people who lived along its southwestern shore. So the English meaning stays literal and geographic: from the Caspian Sea. It sits in a rare class of first names born from a map rather than a saint's calendar or a word for a virtue.
For English speakers, one bearer did most of the work. C.S. Lewis gave the name to Prince Caspian in his Narnia books, published in the 1950s, and a young royal made the sound familiar to millions of readers. The 2008 film adaptation pushed it further into use.
The Polish gloss reaches past the geography. Morski władca means a sea-ruler, a lord of the water. That sense arrived later, drawn from the Narnia prince and the maritime ring of the name. It was attached to Caspian well after the sea itself was named.
Caspian carries no standard diminutives or variants in Polish records. It stays whole. A child listed as Caspian in a Warsaw class register wears the name of a sea.
How many people are named Caspian
1 in 292414 men in Poland is named Caspian. 73 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4194 among male names.
Caspian's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Caspian as a middle name
Caspian is a first name for 73 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3259th, between Casimiro (9) and Charly (9).
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#3257 Bülent9
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#3258 Casimiro9
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#3259 Caspian9
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#3260 Charly9
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#3261 Chinaza9