Feodor
Fewer than 50 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been named Feodor since the records begin in 2000. A Greek name at root, meaning "gift of god", and worn here in its Russian form.
Feodor Pronunciation
Feodor is pronounced fe-O-dor (/fɛˈɔdɔr/).
What Feodor means
Where Feodor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Feodor comes from the Greek Theodoros, built from theos, god, and doron, gift. The meaning sits in the parts: gift of god. That reading is literal, present from the first Greek form. When the name traveled east into Church Slavonic and Russian, it took the shape Feodor, and the older Greek bones stayed intact.
Russia is where the name found its home. Two tsars carried it: Feodor I Ioannovich, the last of the Rurik line, and Feodor III, who ruled from 1676 to 1682. The writer Fyodor Dostoevsky spelled it in the same tradition, and his is the name most readers meet first.
In Poland the name is rare. A boy called Feodor on a school register stands slightly apart from the Piotrs and Jakubs around him. The form has no Polish diminutive, no home-grown variant, so it arrives whole. In Polish the meaning stays plain: dar boga, gift of god.
How many people are named Feodor
1 in 485141 men in Poland is named Feodor. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5778 among male names.