Eyal
A Hebrew name meaning "might, strength". It's about as rare as Polish names get: fewer than 400 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and most Poles will never meet one.
Eyal Pronunciation
Eyal is pronounced e-IH-ahl (/ɛˈɨal/).
What Eyal means
Where Eyal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eyal begins in Hebrew, where the word אֱיָל means strength, or might. It belongs to a small family of Hebrew words built on the sense of firmness and support, and the same sound sits near "ayil," the ram, an animal long tied to force. In Poland the name reads as plainly Jewish, a Hebrew root among Slavic ones.
Short and blunt. That's its character. Unlike names that gathered their meaning slowly, Eyal says what it means from the start. The strength here is not decoration. A boy named Eyal on a Polish class register carries a word that Hebrew speakers still use for real power.
The name has no Polish diminutive, no softened home form to hide behind. It stays Eyal on the imieniny card and Eyal on the form at the urząd. What it offers is the plain Hebrew meaning: siła, moc, strength and might.
How many people are named Eyal
1 in 54734 men in Poland is named Eyal. 394 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1495 among male names.
Eyal's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Eyal as a middle name
Eyal is a first name for 394 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2926th, between Evert (11) and Farag (11).
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#2924 Ephraim11
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#2925 Evert11
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#2926 Eyal11
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#2927 Farag11
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#2928 Ferhat11