I Wayan
The name marks a firstborn son. In Poland it's about as rare as a name gets: roughly 70 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in the years on record.
I Wayan Pronunciation
I Wayan is pronounced EE-vah-IH-ahn (/i vaˈɨan/).
What I Wayan means
Where I Wayan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name i wayan is placed here in the Slavic family, and its given sense is plain: firstborn son, pierworodny syn in Polish. That meaning points at order of birth, at the child who comes first and holds the eldest place.
A name for a firstborn sits close to old Slavic habits of naming by rank. Words for "first" and "elder" ran through the early Slavic tongues, and a child's position among siblings often shaped what the family called him. The meaning here reads as a marker of place rather than a wish.
The record lists no diminutives, no variants, no cross-gender pair. It stands alone. There is no soft home-form to shorten i wayan.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. The teacher reads down the column, and this name would stop the eye, unusual against the Janeks and Piotrs. It holds no name-day of its own in the Polish calendar.
What stays is the short meaning: firstborn son.
How many people are named I Wayan
1 in 304946 men in Poland is named I Wayan. 70 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4301 among male names.