Hygin
Most Poles have never met a Hygin: the name is close to vanishing, and no boy has been given it in years. It comes from the Greek hygies, healthy, the same root that gives us the word hygiene.
Hygin Pronunciation
Hygin is pronounced KHIH-geen (/ˈxɨgin/).
What Hygin means
Where Hygin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hygin comes from Greek, from hygies, meaning healthy. The same root gives English the word hygiene. The name held a wish for soundness of body long before it reached Polish registers.
The best documented bearer is Pope Hyginus, a philosopher from Athens who led the early Church around 138 to 142. His feast falls on 11 January, and Polish calendars mark that date as the imieniny for Hygin. The name never gathered a heavy legend around it. It stayed rare. It stayed close to its plain sense.
There is also the variant higin, the same name with the y softened out. In a school register the two forms can look almost like twins.
The meaning here needs no later story. Greek said hygies, Polish says zdrowy, and both mean healthy.
When Hygin celebrates name day
Hygin appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 11 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 Hygin
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Hygin. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #37424 among male names.
Hygin as a middle name
Hygin is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 30/70 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3895th, between Huw (7) and Ike (7).
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#3893 Huseyin7
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#3894 Huw7
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#3895 Hygin7
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#3896 Ike7
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#3897 Ilham7