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/).
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 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 10 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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.
Cyprian's popularity over time
61 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #316 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Cyprian is most popular
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 Świętokrzyskie, 52% and 44% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian64 boys born+57%
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Subcarpathian45 boys born+44%
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West Pomeranian31 boys born+42%
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Łódź39 boys born+19%
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Podlaskie20 boys born+18%
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Lublin31 boys born+17%
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Greater Poland63 boys born+13%
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Pomeranian39 boys born+2%
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Lubusz12 boys born−7%
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Silesian53 boys born−10%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian22 boys born−22%
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Masovian71 boys born−23%
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Lesser Poland44 boys born−25%
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Opole8 boys born−33%
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Świętokrzyskie8 boys born−44%
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Warmian-Masurian9 boys born−52%
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).
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#133 David3,992
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#134 Rajmund3,990
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#135 Cyprian3,792
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#136 Fryderyk3,791
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#137 Emanuel3,783