Ildefons
Fewer than 30 Polish men carry it, and no boy has been given it this century. Germanic at root, from a name meaning "ready for battle".
Ildefons Pronunciation
Ildefons is pronounced eel-DE-fons (/ilˈdɛfɔns/).
What Ildefons means
Where Ildefons comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ildefons comes from the old Germanic name Hildefuns. It sets hild, meaning battle, beside funs, meaning ready or eager. The name means ready for battle.
The Spanish kept the same roots in their Ildefonso. Saint Ildefonsus of Toledo, a bishop and writer of the seventh century, carried it into the church calendar, and his feast falls on 23 January. That date became the name day for every later Ildefons.
Polish readers meet the name most often in Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, the poet born in 1905. His middle name sat between the plain Konstanty and the surname, and it gave him a signature of his own. A boy called Ildefons today will still find that January imieniny on the register, next to the meaning his name has held since the Germanic Hildefuns: ready for battle.
When Ildefons celebrates name day
Ildefons appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 23 January.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Ildefons
1 in 790600 men in Poland is named Ildefons. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8069 among male names.
Ildefons as a middle name
Ildefons is a first name for 27 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1475th, between Hiacynt (32) and Iqbal (32).
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#1473 Gheorghe32
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#1474 Hiacynt32
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#1475 Ildefons32
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#1476 Iqbal32
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#1477 Kerem32