Cyriak
Fewer than a handful of Polish men carry it: three in the whole country, with no boys given the name last year. It comes from the Greek Kyriakos, "of the lord," a mark early Christians wore to show whose they were.
Cyriak Pronunciation
Cyriak is pronounced TSIHR-yahk (/ˈt͡sɨrjak/).
What Cyriak means
Where Cyriak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cyriak traces back to the Greek Kyriakos, formed from kyrios, meaning "lord." The name says, in plain terms, "of the lord." In Polish that reads as pański, należący do pana.
Early Christians took the word as a mark of belonging. A person named Cyriak was counted as the Lord's own. Saint Cyriacus, a deacon martyred in Rome and later listed among the Fourteen Holy Helpers, carried the name into the church calendar and gave it a fixed day.
The name is rare in Poland. Read out from a class register, it stops the room for a second. That rarity is part of what it offers.
Its meaning was never abstract. Kyrios named an owner, a master, the head of a household, and the sense of "lord" grew from that ground. Cyriak keeps the older, plainer claim: of the lord, należący do pana.
When Cyriak celebrates name day
Cyriak appears 10 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
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in 115 days3 JanuarySunday in 2027
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in 187 days16 MarchTuesday in 2027
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in 234 days2 MaySunday in 2027
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in 308 days15 JulyThursday in 2027
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in 329 days5 AugustThursday in 2027
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in 332 days8 AugustSunday in 2027
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in 336 days12 AugustThursday in 2027
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in 347 days23 AugustMonday in 2027
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in 19 days29 SeptemberTuesday in 2026
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in 32 days12 OctoberMonday in 2026
How many people are named Cyriak
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Cyriak. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #35754 among male names.
Cyriak as a middle name
Cyriak is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 19/81 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2605th, between Conan (13) and Davyd (13).
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#2603 Ciprian13
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#2604 Conan13
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#2605 Cyriak13
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#2606 Davyd13
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#2607 Denys13