Heliodor
Just 86 Polish men carry it, and no boy has been given it in over twenty years. Greek at root, built from the words for sun and gift: "gift of the sun". Meeting one would stay with you.
Heliodor Pronunciation
Heliodor is pronounced khel-YO-dor (/xɛlˈjɔdɔr/).
What Heliodor means
Where Heliodor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Heliodor joins two Greek words. Helios is the sun. Doron is a gift. Read together they mean "gift of the sun," and that same doron sits inside Teodor and Dorota.
The name has old carriers. Heliodorus of Emesa wrote the Greek romance Aethiopika, probably in the third century. A courtier named Heliodorus appears in the Second Book of Maccabees, sent to seize the temple treasury. Mineralogists later borrowed the roots for heliodor, a golden-yellow beryl that really does hold the colour of the sun.
In Poland the name stays rare. On a class register it stands out at once, four syllables set against the Kubas and Anteks. Its feminine variant, Heliodora, is rarer still. Whoever carries either one carries the sun as a gift.
When Heliodor celebrates name day
Heliodor appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 April.
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 Heliodor
1 in 248211 men in Poland is named Heliodor. 86 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3796 among male names.
Heliodor as a middle name
Heliodor is a first name for 86 men in Poland and a middle name for another 106, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 691st, between Burak (106) and Hugon (106).
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#689 Bruce106
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#690 Burak106
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#691 Heliodor106
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#692 Hugon106
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#693 Thanh106