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Cyprian

A Latin name meaning "from Cyprus". Parents gave it most in the 2000s and fewer boys get it now, though it still holds a spot inside Poland's 500 most-given boys' names.

Cyprian Pronunciation

Cyprian is pronounced TSIHPR-yahn (/ˈt͡sɨprjan/).

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Ciprian
Alive in 2025
6,617
Newborns 2025
61
National rank
#434
Next name day
10 March
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What Cyprian means

Where Cyprian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Cyprian comes from the Latin Cyprianus, meaning "from Cyprus," the large island in the eastern Mediterranean. A man called Cyprianus was, quite literally, a Cypriot, someone of that place. The origin is a place. It records geography rather than a wished-for virtue.

The name reached Poland along Christian and literary lines. Cyprian of Carthage, a third-century bishop and martyr, brought it into the calendar and gave it an imieniny. Centuries later Cyprian Kamil Norwid carried it into Polish poetry, though most of his work stayed unread while he lived.

For a daughter there is the cross-gender form Cyprianna, rarer than the masculine and gentler at the close. On a class register the meaning still holds plain: Cyprian, the one from Cyprus.

When Cyprian celebrates name day

Cyprian appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 10 March.

Next name day
10 March
Wednesday in 2027
Next one in 136 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Cyprian

1 in 3226 men in Poland is named Cyprian. 6,617 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #434 among male names.

People with the name Cyprian 2019 → 2025
6,617 +441 since 2019
2020 6,222 +46
2021 6,313 +91
2022 6,384 +71
2023 6,469 +85
2024 6,550 +81
2025 6,617 +67

Cyprian's popularity over time

61 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #316 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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61 newborns with the name Cyprian in 2025
national rank #316 that year

Where parents choose Cyprian

Cyprian is most popular in Lower Silesian, 57% above the national average (64 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+44%) and West Pomeranian (+42%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Holy Cross, 52% and 44% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +57%
    1 in 2,455 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +44%
    1 in 2,679 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +42%
    1 in 2,723 babies
Chosen least
  • Warmian-Masurian
    −52%
    1 in 7,977 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −44%
    1 in 6,929 babies
  • Opole
    −33%
    1 in 5,762 babies

Cyprian as a middle name

Cyprian is a first name for 6,617 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3,792, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 135th, between Rajmund (3,990) and Fryderyk (3,791).

As a first name
6,617
As a middle name
3,792
first name 64% middle name 36%
Middle-name ranking men

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