Fiodar
A Slavic name meaning "gift of god". It barely registers in Poland: only around 350 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Fiodar Pronunciation
Fiodar is pronounced FYO-dahr (/ˈfjɔdar/).
What Fiodar means
Where Fiodar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fiodar comes to Polish ears from the Slavic east, the Belarusian form of a name that older records set down as Theodore. Its short meaning is "gift of God," in Polish dar boży. That sense reaches back through Greek Theodoros, built from theos, god, and doron, gift, before it settled into East Slavic speech as Fiodar.
So the word meant something long before it meant a particular boy. A child given this name inherits a small sentence about being given.
In Poland the name stays rare. It shows up mostly in families with roots further east, near the Belarusian border, and on a class register it reads at once as a name from over there. That foreignness is part of what it does. It marks a line back to the places where Fiodar, rather than Teodor, was the everyday form. The meaning holds on either side of that border: dar boży, gift of God.
How many people are named Fiodar
1 in 61516 men in Poland is named Fiodar. 347 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1611 among male names.
Fiodar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.