Ciprian
Fewer than 70 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no boy was given it last year. A Latin name at root, meaning "from Cyprus".
Ciprian Pronunciation
Ciprian is pronounced CHEEPR-yahn (/ˈt͡ɕiprjan/).
What Ciprian means
Where Ciprian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ciprian comes from the Latin Cyprianus, and the Latin name meant simply "from Cyprus." A person called Cyprianus belonged to that island, or descended from someone who did. The short meaning stays close to the ground: pochodzący z Cypru, one from Cyprus. The variant Cyprian keeps the same root and the same sense.
The name traveled with a bishop. Cyprian of Carthage, a third-century convert who rose to bishop and died a martyr around 258, fixed it in Christian memory. Poland later gave it a poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, born in 1821, whose work went largely unread until decades after his death.
On a Polish class register the spelling Ciprian marks a boy apart from the more common Cyprian. Both point back to the same island. The imieniny falls in autumn, and the name still says one thing: from Cyprus.
How many people are named Ciprian
1 in 323427 men in Poland is named Ciprian. 66 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4466 among male names.
Ciprian as a middle name
Ciprian is a first name for 66 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2603rd, between Campbell (13) and Conan (13).
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#2601 Camil13
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#2602 Campbell13
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#2603 Ciprian13
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#2604 Conan13
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#2605 Cyriak13