Eden
From Hebrew, where the word means pleasure and delight, and where it names the garden of the opening chapters of Genesis. In Poland it goes to boys and girls alike, and to few of either: most Poles have never met one.
Eden Pronunciation
Eden is pronounced E-den (/ˈɛdɛn/).
What Eden means
Where Eden comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eden begins in Hebrew, where the word means pleasure and delight. It names the garden of the opening chapters of Genesis, the place set down before human trouble. The Jewish tradition kept the word close to that first sense, so the name still points back to a garden and its meaning.
For the people who carry it, Eden holds no diminutive and no separate feminine or masculine twist. It stands as itself. The short meaning, rozkosz and przyjemność in Polish, sits plainly on the surface of the word, which is rare among names that hide their sense under centuries of sound change.
On a Polish school register, Eden reads as short and unmistakable, four letters with nothing to abbreviate. There is no name-day fixed to it in the Polish calendar, since it entered use from Hebrew rather than the roll of saints. What a teacher reads aloud is the Hebrew word for delight.
How many people are named Eden
1 in 138306 women in Poland is named Eden. 232 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2038 among female names.
Eden's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Eden as a middle name
Eden is a first name for 232 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1339th, between Dobiesława (28) and Elli (28).
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#1337 Ciara28
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#1338 Dobiesława28
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#1339 Eden28
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#1340 Elli28
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#1341 Eunice28