Hiacynt
From the Greek hyakinthos, the old name for the hyacinth flower, which is exactly what it means. Just nine men in Poland carry it now, and the records show no newborns since 2000.
Hiacynt Pronunciation
Hiacynt is pronounced KHYAH-tsihnt (/ˈxjat͡sɨnt/).
What Hiacynt means
Where Hiacynt comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hiacynt comes from Greek. The source is hyakinthos, the old name for the hyacinth flower, and that flower is what the name means. In Greek myth Hyakinthos was a youth loved by Apollo, and the bloom grew from the ground where he fell. The word held a boy and a blossom long before it reached Polish.
Polish keeps two feminine variants, hiacenta and hiacynta. Both carry the same spring flower into a girl's name. The English cognate Hyacinth points back to the same Greek root, so the family of the name reaches well past Poland.
The hyacinth opens in early spring, heavy with scent, one of the first flowers on the market stalls. A child listed as Hiacynt on a school register shares a name with that plant. The meaning stays literal: the hyacinth flower.
When Hiacynt celebrates name day
Hiacynt appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 March.
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 Hiacynt
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Hiacynt. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #17324 among male names.
Hiacynt as a middle name
Hiacynt is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 22/78 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1474th, between Gheorghe (32) and Ildefons (32).
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#1472 Gerrit32
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#1473 Gheorghe32
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#1474 Hiacynt32
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#1475 Ildefons32
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#1476 Iqbal32