Javid
Javid carries the Arabic sense "eternal". In Poland it stays rare: around 150 men hold it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Javid Pronunciation
What Javid means
Where Javid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Javid comes from Persian, where jāvīd means eternal, everlasting. Its origin sits outside the familiar European roots, and the name circulates today through the Arabic-speaking Muslim world. The short meaning stays close to the source. Eternal.
The name has a documented bearer worth knowing. The poet Muhammad Iqbal gave the name to his son, and in 1932 he addressed a long philosophical poem, the Javid Nama, to that boy. He wrote it as guidance from a father to a child. So a word meaning "everlasting" was fastened to a specific, living person, and not left as an abstraction.
Polish records will not show you a Javid on a class register. The name has no diminutive here and no Polish variant. It arrives whole, with its meaning intact, and it asks to be taken as it is. If you meet one at an urząd handing over a form, the name on that page still says eternal.
How many people are named Javid
1 in 140435 men in Poland is named Javid. 152 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2635 among male names.
Javid's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Javid as a middle name
Javid is a first name for 152 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 94/6 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3317th, between Jaroslav (9) and Jayant (9).
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#3315 Iwar9
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#3316 Jaroslav9
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#3317 Javid9
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#3318 Jayant9
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#3319 Jehad9