Diomedes
From Greek, it fuses Dios, the genitive of Zeus, with a root for planning or counsel: "counsel of Zeus". Fewer than a dozen men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been entered with it in over twenty years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Diomedes Pronunciation
Diomedes is pronounced dyo-ME-des (/djɔˈmɛdɛs/).
What Diomedes means
Where Diomedes comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Diomedes comes from Greek. It fuses Dios, the genitive form of Zeus, with a root that means to plan or to counsel. The name reads as "counsel of Zeus." The Polish gloss puts it another way, "wymyślony przez Zeusa," devised by the god himself.
Homer gave it a bearer no one forgot. In the Iliad, Diomedes is king of Argos and among the boldest Greek fighters before Troy. In one book he wounds two gods, Aphrodite and then Ares. A mortal acting with more than mortal nerve, and marked by Zeus in his very name.
The name stayed rare. It has no diminutive and no Polish variant, so a boy entered as Diomedes on a school class register keeps the full Greek form, with nothing to shorten. The meaning holds where it began, in the counsel of Zeus.
When Diomedes celebrates name day
Diomedes appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 16 August.
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 Diomedes
1 in 2134619 men in Poland is named Diomedes. 10 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #15959 among male names.