Ido
Hebrew in origin, carrying the sense of "witness". In Poland it stays rare: just over 400 men hold it, and most Poles have never crossed paths with one.
Ido Pronunciation
Ido is pronounced EE-do (/ˈidɔ/).
What Ido means
Where Ido comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ido comes from Hebrew, and its meaning is plain: witness, in Polish świadek. The word points to someone who stood present at an event and can vouch for it, a person whose testimony holds.
That sense has a long record. In the Hebrew Bible, Iddo is a seer and chronicler, named in the Books of Chronicles among those who kept the accounts of the kings of Judah, and remembered again as the grandfather of the prophet Zechariah. The modern Ido reaches back to that biblical Iddo.
The name stays close to Jewish tradition, where it is still given to boys. It has no diminutive and no feminine form. There is nothing to shorten. On a Polish class register it would sit alone, unusual, three letters and two syllables against a page of longer names. A witness reports what happened, and that is what Ido names.
How many people are named Ido
1 in 49185 men in Poland is named Ido. 436 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1416 among male names.
Ido's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Ido as a middle name
Ido is a first name for 436 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7902nd, between Idel (2) and Idrees (2).
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#7902 Ido2
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#7903 Idrees2
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#7904 Idriz2