Spirydion
Just six men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It comes from Greek, from spyridion, a word for a small round basket.
Spirydion Pronunciation
Spirydion is pronounced spee-RIHD-yon (/spiˈrɨdjɔn/).
What Spirydion means
Where Spirydion comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Spirydion traces back to Greek. Behind it stands σπυρίδιον, spyridion, a diminutive of σπυρίς, spyris, the word for a round basket. The literal sense is small basket. A plain, everyday object, the kind carried to a market stall.
In Polish the name is often glossed as duch, spirit. That reading came later, pulled in by the accidental likeness to Latin spiritus. The basket sits underneath. The spirit was attached on top.
The name owes its long life to Saint Spyridon of Trimythous, a fourth-century bishop on Cyprus who sat at the Council of Nicaea in 325. His feast falls on 12 December, so a boy called Spirydion has a winter name-day. Enter that name on a Polish class register today and it reads as rare and Greek, and beneath it, still, a woven basket.
When Spirydion celebrates name day
Spirydion appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 December.
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 Spirydion
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Spirydion. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24209 among male names.
Spirydion as a middle name
Spirydion is a first name for 6 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4045th, between Spiros (7) and Sterling (7).
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#4043 Song7
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#4044 Spiros7
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#4045 Spirydion7
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#4046 Sterling7
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#4047 Stojan7