Ekhard
A Germanic name meaning "brave with the sword". Barely a dozen men in Poland carry it, and none have been born this century: most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Ekhard Pronunciation
Ekhard is pronounced EK-khahrt (/ˈɛkxart/).
What Ekhard means
Where Ekhard comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ekhard comes from two old Germanic words. The first, ecke, meant the edge of a blade. The second, hard, meant hardy or brave. Together they give the meaning set down in Polish as odważny mieczem, brave with the sword.
The name found a home in the German lands. Ekkehard of St. Gall, a monk who died in 973, wrote and copied manuscripts in his abbey. A later Ekkehard chronicled the same monastery. Neither man fought, yet each bore the blade in his name.
Then came Meister Eckhart, born around 1260, a preacher and theologian. He preached instead. He turned that martial edge toward the mind, and his sermons cut at comfortable ideas about God.
Ekhard has no diminutive and no feminine form. On a Polish class register it would stand out at once. The blade stays in the sound of it: ecke, the edge, and hard, the courage to hold it.
When Ekhard celebrates name day
Ekhard appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 28 June.
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 Ekhard
1 in 1778849 men in Poland is named Ekhard. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14061 among male names.
Ekhard as a middle name
Ekhard is a first name for 12 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7589th, between Ekber (2) and Elay (2).
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#7589 Ekhard2
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