Rodion
From Greek, carrying a floral sense: różany, "rosy". Barely over a thousand Poles have it, almost all of them men, and it keeps fading: most people here will never meet one.
Rodion Pronunciation
Rodion is pronounced ROD-yon (/ˈrɔdjɔn/).
What Rodion means
Where Rodion comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rodion comes from Greek, and its roots have been read in more than one direction. One reading ties it to rhodon, the rose, and to Rhodes, the island of roses, which gives the Polish sense różany, kwiatowy. Another hears in it a heroic ode, a song of the hero, from the old pairing of a hero and a song. Both readings have followed the name.
In Russian hands it found its most famous bearer in fiction. Rodion Raskolnikov walks through Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, and most readers now know the name from him. The composer Rodion Shchedrin, born in 1932, gave it a voice in music.
The name keeps no diminutives of its own. On a Polish class register it stands alone, three syllables, Ro-di-on. Read it as a rose or as the hero's song.
How many people are named Rodion
1 in 18434 men in Poland is named Rodion. 1,160 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #897 among male names.
Rodion's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Rodion as a middle name
Rodion is a first name for 1,160 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8628th, between Rodian (2) and Rodrick (2).
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